{EncodedDate} only returning date

[bdfrase]

I'm trying to rename home videos my wife takes with her iDevices with creation timestamp data, like the default for Android. (eg. 20190418_142030.mp4). The .MOV files contain the data I need in EncodedDate (UTC timestamp). However, when I use the {EncodedDate} binding, it only returns the date portion.

I can't find "encodeddate" in the binding reference, and I only got this far by blunt force trial and error.

For help, I'd love to get a link to a solid binding reference or how to get the entire tag data for EncodedDate. I'm probably missing something fundamental about how Filebot accesses the tags in MediaInfo...

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[rednoah]

Please read this:
viewtopic.php?f=5&t=4285


You can access raw MediaInfo fields like so:

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{media.EncodedDate}

This will give you a String object, and not a Date object, so you can't do any date formatting.


FileBot does provider a convenience binding {encodedDate} which does give you a Date object, but with Year / Month / Day precision only, and without Hours / Minutes / Seconds information, which explains why HHmmdd doesn't work:

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{encodedDate}

You could take matters into your own hands and do something like this:

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{media.EncodedDate.parseDate('zzz yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss').format('yyyyMMdd_HHmmdd')}

Date.parseDate may require a newer FileBot 4.8.5 pre-release build.

[bdfrase]

Thank you!

[bdfrase]

For anyone with the same problem, this works in the current release:

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{media.EncodedDate.after("UTC ").replaceAll("-").colon("").space("_")}.{ext}