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authorepitron <chris@ill-logic.com>2014-01-02 07:47:28 -0500
committerepitron <chris@ill-logic.com>2014-01-02 07:47:28 -0500
commite63fc1bed423e7b84e257000d7d25bb812d37685 (patch)
tree346b662307a9bb67cadf275e31b189005a22a352 /youtube_dl/__init__.py
parent1b969041d701e2fb7ff106476b91084dbc67332a (diff)
Added '--xattrs' option which writes metadata to the file's extended attributes using a youtube-dl postprocessor.
Works on Linux, OSX, and Windows.
Diffstat (limited to 'youtube_dl/__init__.py')
-rw-r--r--youtube_dl/__init__.py8
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/youtube_dl/__init__.py b/youtube_dl/__init__.py
index 63437301b..03f98f504 100644
--- a/youtube_dl/__init__.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/__init__.py
@@ -38,6 +38,7 @@ __authors__ = (
'Takuya Tsuchida',
'Sergey M.',
'Michael Orlitzky',
+ 'Chris Gahan',
)
__license__ = 'Public Domain'
@@ -78,6 +79,7 @@ from .PostProcessor import (
FFmpegVideoConvertor,
FFmpegExtractAudioPP,
FFmpegEmbedSubtitlePP,
+ XAttrMetadataPP,
)
@@ -412,7 +414,9 @@ def parseOpts(overrideArguments=None):
postproc.add_option('--embed-subs', action='store_true', dest='embedsubtitles', default=False,
help='embed subtitles in the video (only for mp4 videos)')
postproc.add_option('--add-metadata', action='store_true', dest='addmetadata', default=False,
- help='add metadata to the files')
+ help='write metadata to the video file')
+ postproc.add_option('--xattrs', action='store_true', dest='xattrs', default=False,
+ help='write metadata to the video file\'s xattrs (using dublin core and xdg standards)')
parser.add_option_group(general)
@@ -709,6 +713,8 @@ def _real_main(argv=None):
ydl.add_post_processor(FFmpegVideoConvertor(preferedformat=opts.recodevideo))
if opts.embedsubtitles:
ydl.add_post_processor(FFmpegEmbedSubtitlePP(subtitlesformat=opts.subtitlesformat))
+ if opts.xattrs:
+ ydl.add_post_processor(XAttrMetadataPP())
# Update version
if opts.update_self: