M2TS Tags

The MPEG-2 transport stream is used as a container for many different audio/video formats (including AVCHD). This table lists information extracted from M2TS files.

Tag Name WritableValues / Notes
AudioStreamType no --> M2TS StreamType Values
Duration no (the -fast option may be used to avoid scanning to the end of file to calculate the Duration)
VideoStreamType no --> M2TS StreamType Values
_AC3 - --> M2TS AC3 Tags
_H264 - --> H264 Tags

M2TS StreamType Values

ValueStreamTypeValueStreamType
0x0= Reserved 0x12= MPEG-4 generic
0x1= MPEG-1 Video 0x13= ISO 14496-1 SL-packetized
0x2= MPEG-2 Video 0x14= ISO 13818-6 Synchronized Download Protocol
0x3= MPEG-1 Audio 0x1b= H.264 Video
0x4= MPEG-2 Audio 0x80= DigiCipher II Video
0x5= ISO 13818-1 private sections 0x81= A52/AC-3 Audio
0x6= ISO 13818-1 PES private data 0x82= HDMV DTS Audio
0x7= ISO 13522 MHEG 0x83= LPCM Audio
0x8= ISO 13818-1 DSM-CC 0x84= SDDS Audio
0x9= ISO 13818-1 auxiliary 0x85= ATSC Program ID
0xa= ISO 13818-6 multi-protocol encap 0x86= DTS-HD Audio
0xb= ISO 13818-6 DSM-CC U-N msgs 0x87= E-AC-3 Audio
0xc= ISO 13818-6 stream descriptors 0x8a= DTS Audio
0xd= ISO 13818-6 sections 0x91= A52b/AC-3 Audio
0xe= ISO 13818-1 auxiliary 0x92= DVD_SPU vls Subtitle
0xf= MPEG-2 AAC Audio 0x94= SDDS Audio
0x10= MPEG-4 Video 0xa0= MSCODEC Video
0x11= MPEG-4 LATM AAC Audio 0xea= Private ES (VC-1)

M2TS AC3 Tags

Tags extracted from AC-3 audio streams.

Tag Name WritableValues / Notes
AudioBitrate no  
AudioChannels no
0 = 1 + 1
1 = 1
2 = 2
3 = 3
4 = 2/1
5 = 3/1
6 = 2/2
   7 = 3/2
8 = 1
9 = 2 max
10 = 3 max
11 = 4 max
12 = 5 max
13 = 6 max
AudioSampleRate no 0 = 48000
1 = 44100
2 = 32000
SurroundMode no 0 = Not indicated
1 = Not Dolby surround
2 = Dolby surround

(This document generated automatically by Image::ExifTool::BuildTagLookup)
Last revised Mar 18, 2011

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