Question Removing Video File Properties and Personal Information

[Devilfenix]

Greetings to all,
Recently, I downloaded some video files from torrents, and it's impossible to remove from each video file its properties and personal information as you can see in the images below... like they are locked somehow...

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Any idea how can I force remove them?

 

[yticpmis234]

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[Devilfenix]

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Thank you for your reply, I tried it with the ExifToolGUI, and I got an error when I tried to remove metadata from a video file... the message I got was
" 0 image files updated
1 files weren't updated due to errors
Error: Writing of MKV files is not yet supported -"

 

[sexyegirlsaccount]

MKV can be converted to MP4 almost instantly, with no reencoding... I would just do that and then use exiftool.
Also double check that MKV is unable to be handled by exiftool, because I suspect it is just the thing you tried, ExifToolGUI.

 

[yticpmis234]

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sexyegirlsaccount is right 🏆 .

The best course of action is to convert MKV to regular mp4 ... run ffmpeg -i My_Video.mkv -c copy My_Video.mp4

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  to handle make or modify MKV files