How do I simply retrieve timestamp of recording from DV (as in DV tape) AVI files?

Question

I am looking for a way to retrieve or extract the timestamp of the recording from DV AVI files. The timestamp should be part of the AVI file's metadata. The files were originally imported from DV to PC and a DV format in an AVI wrapper.

A library providing an API - or a command-line tool would be ok. I am going to be using this on Mac, but open source tools for Linux is ok as well.

Answer 1

After further investigation I found MediaInfo http://mediainfo.sourceforge.net/

They also provide a command-line tool and a library for both Windows, Mac and Linux. However, the command-line version together with some basic shell scripting solved my problem.