[FFmpeg-user] How can I burn-in the TRUE TIME timestamp from AVCHD/MTS video?

[Jesse Gordon]

Hello Reino, and Everybody, (Still unsolved)

> I think https://stackoverflow.com/a/67409424/2703456 can help you out 
> on this one. 

Thank you so much for the quick response! I have updated the subject line:

I'm trying to burn-in the TRUE time that the video was actually recorded 
-- i.e. "2025-04-03 12:45:32.123" -- the camera records the true date 
and time and both the camera AND ffplay display it during playback as a 
text overlay.

The very fine Stack Overflow link you give is related - but it's showing 
what I already tried - it shows Elapsed Time since beginning of clip - 
I'm looking for real date and time the video was filmed.

I know the information is in the file, because ffplay displays it! (But 
other players/video editors do not.)

(And ffplay even displays the absolute date/time when reading from 
stdin/pipe, so I know it's not relying on any file name creation date. 
The information is fully contained within the media stream itself.)

Thank you all for any clues you might think of!

~Jesse