In Memory, you can encode certain metadata into the header of output file according to the file format. These metadata are useful for locating the data when you are working with particular instance of the data.
Different set of metadata can be encoded into different output file formats, they are summarized in the following table.
File Format - Metadata field (description)
Remarks :
QuickTime MOV, MP4, M4A, ET, AL,
Metadata field (description) :
Title
Author (except MP4)
Album_artist
Album
Grouping
Composer
Year
Track
Comment
Genre
Copyright
Description
Synopsis
Show
Episode_id
Network
Lyrics
Remarks :
Original file name
Encoder name
Encoder name
Channel name
Current year
Encoder name + channel name
(For MP4, it is the string with date%time of start and end of recording)
Channel name
File Format - ASF , WMA , WMV
(ASF file format accepts free-form key/value metadata to be encoded into file header)
Metadata field (description):
Title
Author
Copyright
Comment
Rating
Remarks :
Original file name
Encoder name
Channel name
Encoder name + channel name
File Format - Matroska (MKV)
(Free-form key/value metadata pairs are also accepted)
Metadata field (description):
Title
Description
Language
Remarks :
Original file name
Encoder name + channel name
File Format - AVI
Metadata field (description):
IART (artist)
ICMT (comment)
ICOP (copyright)
ICRD (date)
IGNR (genre)
ILNG (language)
INAM (title)
IPRD (album)
IPRT (track)
ITCH (encoded_by)
Remarks :
Encoder name + channel name
Original file name
Channel name
Encoder name
File Format - FLV
Metadata field (description):
Free-form metadata key/value pairs
File Format - MP3
Metadata field (description):
Title
Author
Album
Year
Comment
Track
Genre
Remarks :
Original file name
Encoder name
Channel name
Encoder name + channel name
File Format - MPEG Transport Stream
Metadata field (description):
Title
Language
Remarks :
Original file name