How does one extract the metadata?

[blurymind]

The example file doesn't seem to do anything.
Is this library capable of extracting the metadata of the webm file?

If so, can you please provide a simple example of opening a webm file and logging its metadata to console? :)

[brianxautumn]

It does, do you have a specific sample file you were interested in, I’ll post a demo

[blurymind]

Hi,
Thank you in advance. It doesn't have the greatest data - just some test strings

bird-meta.zip

I inserted the whole description of mkvtoolsinx inside the document title meta tag - just to test if I will hit a string character limit

If you can get any of these strings to print out, your library is awesome!

[brianxautumn]

Okay cool, I’ll post tonight, I’ll update the readme too, it’s pretty outdated

[blurymind]

Thank you @brianxautumn looking forward to it. I will also try (and use) it in my project :)

[brianxautumn]

I just threw something together super fast but I was able to demux your file. You actually have more elements that are technically not supported by webm, but it still parsed the majority of it. I can add in the missing elements. I need to overhaul a lot, and polish up the api, but if its useful to you let me know and I can add in specific functions for you.

[brianxautumn]

If okay with you I can post a demo with that file

[blurymind]

Of course its ok :) i would love to see a code snippet - I just need to extract a metadata string

What is the simplest way to do that with your library

[blurymind]

@brianxautumn can you share a link to the code snippet or just paste it here please :)
I am eager to give this a try

[blurymind]

@brianxautumn was this ever made possible? :) it's such a trivial feature, yet there seem to be no pure javascript implementations out there to embed or retrieve metadata from webm files.
It is kind of surprising how obscure this is

[brianxautumn]

Hey, don't know if you're still looking into this but putting together a reworked api and demo
https://jscodec.github.io/jswebm/

[blurymind]

@brianxautumn I am still interested in this yes. Can the new implementation write/read/both metadata from a webm file?
The link https://jscodec.github.io/jswebm/ leads to what looks like a json file - is that the result of an extracted metadata from an example webm?