MakeComment Metadata optional

[Batwam]

Hello, when selecting "include metadata", the file is being "earmarked" by including a link to the original video in the "Comment" field. I was wondering if it would be possible to make this Comment metada optional?

I also think that it would be useful to include a subtitle to describe what medata is being embedded:

My suggestion would be to have "Include link to original file" as a separate Gtk.Switch and have a Subtitles in the current switch to explain that the medata embedded contains Audio and Video properties only.

[nlogozzo]

This is all handled by yt-dlp. If active, the Embed Metadata switch just tells yt-dlp to include metadata. What metadata in included and where, is all determined by yt-dlp and changes between websites, meaning we can't really control it.

[Batwam]

Having just had a look at yt-dlp, it does appear to include a section on tailored metadata with the following example:

# Set "comment" field in video metadata using description instead of webpage_url,
# handling multiple lines correctly
$ yt-dlp --parse-metadata "description:(?s)(?P<meta_comment>.+)" --embed-metadata

So, it looks like there might already a built-in option to include something else than the url in the Comment section, which could also be used to leave the comment blank if needed?

[nlogozzo]

@fsobolev thoughts?

[fsobolev]

I will figure out how to overwrite metadata.

[fsobolev]

A note from Matrix chat:

By the way, having looked through the files using exiftool yt-dlp also appears to copy original data (the video Description) in the “Description” and “Long Description” Exif fields…

[nlogozzo]

https://github.com/NickvisionApps/TubeConverter/releases/tag/2023.6.1-beta2

[Batwam]

Hi, I just tried the files generated using the new version using exiftool and the url still appears under the "User Defined Text" field. same thing for for Audio and Video.

[nlogozzo]

I'll fix that...looks like we have to clear the "purl" field as well