A video player showing the date?

[Brook]

I have a bunch of DV-AVI home video files (captured from my camcorder with VS) I like to play frequently. I'd like the recording date to be displayed. The date and time are encoded in the media data and I can display this date in the VS preview window (file/preferences/display timecode in preview window). However, it is inconvenient to use the VS preview window as my default video player for simply playing AVI files (a lot of steps to open VS, load the file, etc). I just want to double-click the avi file and have it play. Can VS be used in some simple video player mode (like Windows media player, or Quicktime)? If not, do you know of any video player that will display the date (Windows media player won't show media data for avi files; Quicktime won't either)?

[Ron P.]

The only one that comes to mind right now is DV Date. It's a utility that can burn that information onto the video. You can then render out to MPEG2, and place them on DVDs if you wish..

http://paul.glagla.free.fr/dvdate_en.htm

[Ken Berry]

I am not absolutely certain whether you want to date to actually show in your finished product -- in which case DV Date will do the trick -- or just to be able to see the date in order to make a choice of a video to include in a project but don't want to have to do it in the preview window. If the latter, then simply hovering your mouse over a file will give you information about the file, including the date...

[sjj1805]

Every time someone brings this up I think of this post on the forum which is one of my all time favourites!

Response from bhbuckeye