using mediainfo .avi movie files have a field (may be matainfo) called “movie name”, I would like to change it , how can I do it?
Did you try
manythanks, but I would like to use a commandline solution becouse usually it is very more flexible and can be used in bulk files, your link suggest:
ExifTool is a command like program which can get and change video metadata. You can use the appropriate command below to install ExifTool with your system’s package manager.
To install ExifTool on Ubuntu, Debian, and Linux Mint:
and also google says this
You may try it as your search result is from 2011…
ah, you are right 
I tried to read metadata from the movie.avi file
pla@plaST:/dati/film> exiftool movie.avi
ExifTool Version Number : 12.65
File Name : movie.avi
Directory : .
File Size : 1071 MB
File Modification Date/Time : 2024:10:12 19:40:45+02:00
File Access Date/Time : 2024:10:12 19:39:26+02:00
File Inode Change Date/Time : 2024:10:12 19:40:45+02:00
File Permissions : -rwxrwxrwx
File Type : AVI
File Type Extension : avi
MIME Type : video/x-msvideo
Frame Rate : 25
Max Data Rate : 257.8 kB/s
Frame Count : 137362
Stream Count : 2
Stream Type : Video
Video Codec : XVID
Video Frame Rate : 25
Video Frame Count : 137511
Quality : Default
Sample Size : Variable
BMP Version : Unknown (98)
Image Width : 720
Image Height : 308
Planes : 1
Bit Depth : 24
Compression : XVID
Image Length : 665280
Pixels Per Meter X : 0
Pixels Per Meter Y : 0
Num Colors : Use BitDepth
Num Important Colors : All
Red Mask : 0xb0010000
Green Mask : 0x010000f5
Blue Mask : 0x000009b5
Alpha Mask : 0x00000001
Color Space : Unknown (�. .)
Audio Codec : .
Audio Sample Rate : 56000
Audio Sample Count : 308025088
Encoding : FAST Multimedia DVM
Num Channels : 6
Sample Rate : 48000
Avg Bytes Per Sec : 56000
Bits Per Sample : 0
Total Frame Count : 137511
Title : He.Went.That.Way.2023.DVDRip.AC3.ITA.CB01
Product : He Went That Way (2023) DVD9
Software : Lavf56.9.100
Image Size : 720x308
Megapixels : 0.222
Duration : 1:31:34
pla@plaST:/dati/film>I would like to change the metadata Title : He.Went.That.Way.2023.DVDRip.AC3.ITA.CB01
so I check if Title is in the metadata
pla@plaST:/dati/film> exiftool -T -Title movie.avi
He.Went.That.Way.2023.DVDRip.AC3.ITA.CB01
pla@plaST:/dati/film>it is there
I try to edit metadata Title in “cazzoduro”
pla@plaST:/dati/film> exiftool -Title="cazzoduro" movie.avi
Error: Can't currently write RIFF AVI files - movie.avi
0 image files updated
1 files weren't updated due to errorscheck if metadata Title is changed
pla@plaST:/dati/film> exiftool movie.avi
ExifTool Version Number : 12.65
File Name : movie.avi
Directory : .
File Size : 1071 MB
File Modification Date/Time : 2024:10:12 19:40:45+02:00
File Access Date/Time : 2024:10:12 19:42:28+02:00
File Inode Change Date/Time : 2024:10:12 19:40:45+02:00
File Permissions : -rwxrwxrwx
File Type : AVI
File Type Extension : avi
MIME Type : video/x-msvideo
Frame Rate : 25
Max Data Rate : 257.8 kB/s
Frame Count : 137362
Stream Count : 2
Stream Type : Video
Video Codec : XVID
Video Frame Rate : 25
Video Frame Count : 137511
Quality : Default
Sample Size : Variable
BMP Version : Unknown (98)
Image Width : 720
Image Height : 308
Planes : 1
Bit Depth : 24
Compression : XVID
Image Length : 665280
Pixels Per Meter X : 0
Pixels Per Meter Y : 0
Num Colors : Use BitDepth
Num Important Colors : All
Red Mask : 0xb0010000
Green Mask : 0x010000f5
Blue Mask : 0x000009b5
Alpha Mask : 0x00000001
Color Space : Unknown (�. .)
Audio Codec : .
Audio Sample Rate : 56000
Audio Sample Count : 308025088
Encoding : FAST Multimedia DVM
Num Channels : 6
Sample Rate : 48000
Avg Bytes Per Sec : 56000
Bits Per Sample : 0
Total Frame Count : 137511
Title : He.Went.That.Way.2023.DVDRip.AC3.ITA.CB01
Product : He Went That Way (2023) DVD9
Software : Lavf56.9.100
Image Size : 720x308
Megapixels : 0.222
Duration : 1:31:34
pla@plaST:/dati/film>it isn’t, why it doesn’t worked?
How can I change metadata Title?
The exiftool documentation says that AVI can only be read by exiftool but not written.
You could try to convert your AVI file with ffmpeg to a MP4 file and then try again to change “Title”.
I have a lot of files so I would like a bulk command that do not do a timeconsuming operation like convert or copy
maybe give AVI MetaEdit - Download AVI MetaEdit for openSUSE a try: there’s a GUI and a CLI (what you prefer). Sadly, the Leap release is date due to Leap 42.3 
Maybe, it works, though.
manythanks, I tried the cli version and it works verywell for me
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