Image::...ol::M2TS(3)

💖 Image::...ol::M2TS(3) 💖

okay so bestie, welcome to the Image::...ol::M2TS(3) page, straight outta the User Contributed Perl Documentation ✨ it's short, it's sweet, it's giving "supporting cast member that's lowkey doing all the work" 💅

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🌸 NAME 🌸

Image::ExifTool::M2TS — read M2TS (AVCHD) meta information 🎀

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

This module is used by Image::ExifTool 🫶

fr fr that's the whole synopsis. she's not here to be called directly, she's here to serve.

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

This module contains routines required by Image::ExifTool to extract information from MPEG-2 transport streams, such as those used by AVCHD video 🎥✨

like… it's the backstage crew pulling the metadata out of your camcorder footage. no cap, iconic behaviour 💖

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👑 AUTHOR 👑

Copyright 2003-2026, Phil Harvey (philharvey66 at gmail.com) 🫶

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

giving generous, giving open source, giving "you can remix this bestie" 💅

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🌈 REFERENCES 🌈

the receipts, the sources, the iykyk reading list 📚✨:

• http://neuron2.net/library/mpeg2/iso13818-1.pdf
• http://www.blu-raydisc.com/Assets/Downloadablefile/BD-RE_Part3_V2.1_WhitePaper_080406-15271.pdf
• http://www.videohelp.com/forum/archive/reading-avchd-playlist-files-bdmv-playlist-mpl-t358888.html
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MPEG_transport_stream
• http://www.dunod.com/documents/9782100493463/49346_DVB.pdf
• http://trac.handbrake.fr/browser/trunk/libhb/stream.c
• http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?arnumber=04560141
• http://www.w6rz.net/xport.zip

not me dropping eight whole spec links like a professor with main character energy 😭💀 but like… the lore is the lore.

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💜 SEE ALSO 💜

• "M2TS Tags" in Image::ExifTool::TagNames
• Image::ExifTool(3pm)

go read those next, bestie, they're the sequel 🎀

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and that's the page!! 💖 this was perl v5.42.1, dated 2026-03-31 — mwah, slay, periodt ✨🦋🌸💅