[FFMPEG BATCH SCRIPT] Remux MP4 to MKV removing all details data!

[Cauptain]

Hello guys, how are your doing in this pandemic? Hope your are all right.

Have a question and need your help and knowledge.

My wife have several videos of our kids in a folder and they are in MP4 and I would like to turn them all into mkv (play better on PLEX).

The problem is that the files contain metadata of when it was, the date, the event, the place as I kept everything organized, but I don't want PLEX to have access my videos data.

So I would like to know if there is any scrip for FFMPEG (Windows) that can remux (no reencode) to MKV and remove all data.

If that's not possible, the script will help me and then I'll look for some software to remove the data details.

Thank u everybody.



Claudio

[CyberOtter]

Hey.

Looked around a bit, seems that there could be several options to test.

ffmpeg -i input.mkv -c copy -fflags +bitexact -flags:v +bitexact -flags:a +bitexact output.mkv

(fflags/bitexact : this won't strip the existing metadata present in the original file, it will keep ffmpeg from adding it)

OR

ffmpeg -y -i "test.mkv" -c copy -map_metadata -1 -metadata title="My Title" -metadata creation_time=2016-09-20T21:30:00 -map_chapters -1 "test.mkv"

(manually changes the metadata : you can write what ever you want)

OR

ffmpeg -hide_banner -i "test.mkv" -map 0:v:0? -map 0:a? -map 0:s? -c copy -map_metadata:g -1 "TestoutputVideo.mkv"

(-map_metadata:g -1 to strip metadata , trailing "?" after the stream index will allow the map to be optional: if the map matches no streams the map will be ignored instead of failing. )


source 1

source 2


Try it with one file, and tell us if it worked on your Plex.

Cheers

[Cauptain]

Hey.

Looked around a bit, seems that there could be several options to test.

ffmpeg -i input.mkv -c copy -fflags +bitexact -flags:v +bitexact -flags:a +bitexact output.mkv

(fflags/bitexact : this won't strip the existing metadata present in the original file, it will keep ffmpeg from adding it)

OR

ffmpeg -y -i "test.mkv" -c copy -map_metadata -1 -metadata title="My Title" -metadata creation_time=2016-09-20T21:30:00 -map_chapters -1 "test.mkv"

(manually changes the metadata : you can write what ever you want)

OR

ffmpeg -hide_banner -i "test.mkv" -map 0:v:0? -map 0:a? -map 0:s? -c copy -map_metadata:g -1 "TestoutputVideo.mkv"

(-map_metadata:g -1 to strip metadata , trailing "?" after the stream index will allow the map to be optional: if the map matches no streams the map will be ignored instead of failing. )


source 1

source 2


Try it with one file, and tell us if it worked on your Plex.

Cheers

Thank u very much CyberOtter for fast reply.

Thank you very much for the tips. I ended up using part of them together with FFMPEG BATCH.

I didn't know about this program and it does EVERYTHING it needed.


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Claudio

[CyberOtter]

I know, this program is awesome, I use it all the time too.
(cf my post here )

Anyways, glad it could help.

Cheers