jFlvTool

jFlvTool is a metadata injector for your Macromedia Flash video files. jFlvTool depends on the commons-cli library from Apache. You'll need to download a copy of cli v1.1 and place the file named "commons-cli-1.1.jar" in the jFlvTool/lib directory in order to use the application.

The following switches are currently supported: -debug -destfile -embed -help -metacreator -metafile -metaname -print -srcfile

'debug' is an optional switch which toggles printing of a stack trace when an exception is caught.

'destfile' is the desired location for your output file. If you do not specify a location then it defaults to the same location as the original file with a 'out_' prefix. The path may be relative or absolute.

'embed' accepts a comma-separated list of key-value pairs to embed into the flv. For example, if you wanted to embed your full name as three separate variables the 'embed' switch would look like this:

"-embed fname=john,middle=q,lname=public"

'metacreator' is an optional switch which allows you to specify a string (Company name, Artist name, etc...) in the 'metacreator' field

'metafile' is the location of a plain text file containing metadata you would like to embed. The variable name can be defined using the 'metaname' switch. The path may be relative or absolute.

'metaname' is the variable name used for the metadata embedded using the 'metafile' switch.

'print' is an optional switch which will print the existing metadata of the specified 'srcfile'.

'srcfile' if the full or relative path to the source flv - it must always be set.