Avidemux title change

[Pitorasilo]

When playing a video remuxed with avidemux in VLC the title says AVIDEMUX.
Does anyone knows how to remove that?

[guns1inger]

When you remux with AVI Demux is puts AVIDemux in the Artist field of the file details. In VLC click on Tools -> Media Information. Clear the Artist field, then click on Save Metatdata. Problem solved.

Don't know how to stop AVI Demux doing this in the first place though

[Pitorasilo]

Thanks for the quick reply, but your solution does not work
When i edit and save the title, the next time i play it, AVIDEMUX is still there.
Anyone knows another solution.

[guns1inger]

Edit in AVI Demux. Save the title. Open the title in VLC. Click on Tools -> Media Information. Clear the Artist field. Save Metatdata.

I have tested this and it works with current versions of both tools.

However if you make any further changes in AVI Demux, you will have to clear the metadata again. Any time you save out from AVI Demux, you will have to clear the field in VLC and save it again.

[Pitorasilo]

Sorry for the late response, was busy with other stuff....
But the method given, really does not work on my comp

[Halfsoft]

Hello Pitorasilo,

As a user of VLC media player I stumbled on the same problem as you did:

VLC shows "Avidemux" for the video title if it has been remuxed with that tool.

I have found a simple solution to remove that entry and VLC will just show
the name of the video file (as without metadata).

1. Open the video file in an hex editor like HxD or a utility like Ultra Edit.

HxD and Ultra Edit create automatic backups...

2. Below you see the lines that contain the term Avidemux.

It only occurs once in a Avidemux video file...

Offset(h) 00 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 0A 0B 0C 0D 0E 0F

00000110 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 15 49 A9 66 01 00 ...........I©f..
00000120 00 00 00 00 00 4C 2A D7 B1 83 0F 42 40 7B A9 88 .....L*×±ƒ.B@{©ˆ
00000130 41 76 69 64 65 6D 75 78 4D 80 8B 4C 61 76 66 35 AvidemuxM€‹Lavf5

3. On the hex side overwrite the enry © (hex A9) with a space (hex 20) so you will end up with:

Offset(h) 00 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 0A 0B 0C 0D 0E 0F

00000110 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 15 49 A9 66 01 00 ...........I©f..
00000120 00 00 00 00 00 4C 2A D7 B1 83 0F 42 40 7B 20 88 .....L*×±ƒ.B@{ ˆ
00000130 41 76 69 64 65 6D 75 78 4D 80 8B 4C 61 76 66 35 AvidemuxM€‹Lavf5

4. Save the file

It takes one to two minutes to resave, depending on the file size.

Done.

No remuxing and all that, just editing.

Just be careful what you overwrite... only the entry shown above!

Hope this helps.

Greetings,

Halfsoft.

[gregconquest]

I figured this out, for me, anyway. I was having the same problem. I was able to use VLC to change the metadata on mp4's, but not on mkv's or m4v's. So, I tried using avidemux to convert my mkv's/m4v's to mp4's, and 1) it was just a container conversion, not a transcode, so it was fast and did not degrade the video, and 2) the resultant mp4's already had the filename saved as the metadata title, so I didn't even need to use VLC as a follow-up.

avidemux seems to work well with mp4 but not with mkv / matroska on linux. Note, if you use some of the subtitling or multi-track audio features of mkv, this may not work out perfectly. I'm not sure.