Old home movies add when recorded?

[David22]

Is there a way to add when a video was recorded? Like how the old school cameras used to do.

Maybe using subtitles? I'm not sure how i would pull the data of when it was recorded from the file. I know that DTS888 can pull that data but it requires burning it in but i know the info is there within the files.

They are MP4 file XVAC. 5, 7 years old.

[johns0]

With mpc-hc i click on the file to play and choose properties/details and see what date it was created.

[poisondeathray]

You can try TimeDateSRTCreator , which will generate .srt subs with the data

https://www.videohelp.com/software/TimeDateSRTCreator
https://sourceforge.net/projects/timedatesrtcreator/
https://forum.videohelp.com/threads/335788-Time-Date-Subtitle-File-Generator-(-srt)-Testers-Required

[Secoast]

Second vote for TimeDateSRTCreator.

Date Time Format can be changed to D if you don't want clock times. Upper, or lower case changes date format.

[David22]

TimeDateSRTCreator works great!

Now is there a way to embed the .srt file it makes? I play these on my PC or Plex.

Another issue is the files i have are only 5 min each since that was the record limit of 4k video due to heat if i put all the clips togeather then make a .srt file the info is all messed up.

[Secoast]

TimeDateSRTCreator works great!

Now is there a way to embed the .srt file it makes? I play these on my PC or Plex.

Another issue is the files i have are only 5 min each since that was the record limit of 4k video due to heat if i put all the clips togeather then make a .srt file the info is all messed up.

TimeDateSRTCreator will let you add a folder to create subs for each clip in one go, or merge into one sub.

FFMPEG can hard code clips as a batch file. Then all hard encoded clips can be concatenated without further encoding. Or, you can concatenate prior to adding the merged subs.

Just depends on whever you have FFMPEG installled, or not ? The basic principle applies with any application.

EDIT:
Just to clarify. When you say embed do you want to soft code, or hard code (burn in) ?

[poisondeathray]

You can mux them into a mkv container with mkvtoolnix gui (mkvmerge) , or a transport stream with tsmuxer

[David22]

TimeDateSRTCreator works great!

Now is there a way to embed the .srt file it makes? I play these on my PC or Plex.

Another issue is the files i have are only 5 min each since that was the record limit of 4k video due to heat if i put all the clips togeather then make a .srt file the info is all messed up.

TimeDateSRTCreator will let you add a folder to create subs for each clip in one go, or merge into one sub.

FFMPEG can hard code clips as a batch file. Then all hard encoded clips can be concatenated without further encoding. Or, you can concatenate prior to adding the merged subs.

Just depends on whever you have FFMPEG installled, or not ? The basic principle applies with any application.

EDIT:
Just to clarify. When you say embed do you want to soft code, or hard code (burn in) ?

I just want the .srt file to be in the MP4 file if that makes sense as to where you can turn off subtitles.