Image::...ickTime(3)
π Image::ExifTool::QuickTime β the manual, but make it a group chat π
okay bestie, welcome to the Image::ExifTool::QuickTime page, from your friendly neighborhood User Contributed Perl Documentation. This is the module that reads QuickTime and MP4 meta information, and honestly? It ate. β¨
πΈ NAME πΈ
Image::ExifTool::QuickTime β read QuickTime and MP4 meta information, no cap π
π SYNOPSIS π
Lowkey the whole synopsis is just this:
This module is used by Image::ExifTool.
That's it. That's the tea. She's a supporting character, not the main character β but every main character needs a bestie who does the actual work, fr fr. π«Ά
π¦ DESCRIPTION π¦
So here's the vibe: this module contains routines required by Image::ExifTool to extract information from QuickTime and MP4 video, M4A audio, and HEIC image files.
That's literally it. She's the behind-the-scenes girly pulling metadata out of your videos, your audio, and your HEIC pics so that Image::ExifTool can show up looking iconic. Not me being obsessed with a metadata extraction module ππ
π AUTHOR π
Copyright 2003-2026, Phil Harvey (philharvey66 at gmail.com) π
This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.
shoutout to Phil for real, two decades plus of metadata service, that's main character energy periodt π
π REFERENCES π
the receipts, the sources, the citations bestie β all of them, untouched:
- <http://developer.apple.com/mac/library/documentation/QuickTime/QTFF/QTFFChap1/qtff1.html>
- <http://search.cpan.org/dist/MP4-Info-1.04/>
- <http://www.geocities.com/xhelmboyx/quicktime/formats/mp4-layout.txt>
- <http://wiki.multimedia.cx/index.php?title=Apple_QuickTime>
- <http://atomicparsley.sourceforge.net/mpeg-4files.html>
- <http://wiki.multimedia.cx/index.php?title=QuickTime_container>
- <http://code.google.com/p/mp4v2/wiki/iTunesMetadata>
- <http://www.canieti.com.mx/assets/files/1011/IEC_100_1384_DC.pdf>
- <http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flv/pdf/video_file_format_spec_v10.pdf>
(geocities link still holding on in 2026, we love a survivor πβ¨)
β SEE ALSO β
- "QuickTime Tags" in
Image::ExifTool::TagNames Image::ExifTool(3pm)
go read those next bestie, iykyk π¦
and that's the page!! sign-off time: this was perl v5.42.1, dated 2026-03-31, and it's giving Image::...ickTime(3) energy from start to finish πβ¨ slay, read responsibly, mwah π
π¦ where this page comes from
- fedora 43: perl-Image-ExifTool 13.50-1.fc43 Β· GPL-1.0-or-later OR Artistic-1.0-Perl
- fedora 44: perl-Image-ExifTool 13.50-1.fc44 Β· GPL-1.0-or-later OR Artistic-1.0-Perl
- π girlified by deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash on : a language model's rewrite of the original, under its terms