Image::...ol::H264(3)

💖 NAME 💖

Image::ExifTool::H264 — bestie, this is the little module that reads meta information straight out of H.264 video. yes. video. the moving pictures kind. slay. 🎬✨

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

okay so real talk: you don't really call this yourself. it's used by Image::ExifTool. that's the whole vibe. it's a supporting character with main character energy. 👑

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

this module contains the routines that Image::ExifTool needs to go extract information from H.264 video streams. that's it, that's the job, and it does it flawlessly fr fr. 💅

ngl it's lowkey the backstage crew of the ExifTool theatre — you never see it, but without it nothing works. 🎀

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🫶 AUTHOR 🫶

Copyright 2003-2026, Phil Harvey (philharvey66 at gmail.com) — absolute icon, no cap. 👑

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. so go off, share it, remix it, it's giving generous. 🌈

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📚 REFERENCES 📚

the receipts, the sources, the lore:

• <http://www.itu.int/rec/T-REC-H.264/e>
• <http://miffteevee.co.uk/documentation/development/H264Parser_8cpp-source.html>
• <http://ffmpeg.org/>

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👀 SEE ALSO 👀

• "H264 Tags" in Image::ExifTool::TagNames
• Image::ExifTool(3pm)

if you wanna know what tags actually come out of this thing, that first one is where you're headed. iykyk. 🧚

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💀 heads up bestie: this page is part of the User Contributed Perl Documentation, so that's the manual-name situation folded in near the top like we promised. 🎀

perl v5.42.1 · 2026-03-31 · Image::...ol::H264(3) — that's the version, the date, and the page name, all wrapped up in a little bow. mwah. 💋✨ bye bestie, go read some video metadata 💖🦋🌸