Date stamps from video clips

I would like to extract the date/time of recording from video clips recorded with digital photo cameras (in MJPEG format, wrapped in either AVI or MOV files). The idea is to automatically index them into a database.
From what I understand, digital photo cameras usualy store their film clips in either AVI or MOV files:
http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/formats/fdd/fdd000060.shtml (AVI)
http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/formats/fdd/fdd000089.shtml (Quicktime)
Drew Noakes has made a great library for extracting the time stamps (and a lot of other stuff) from JPEG photos:
http://www.drewnoakes.com/code/exif/
I wonder if there is any similar library, working with film clips, or if there is any handy information over how to extract this.
TIA

I have written some code that does the job for several types of AVI files. If anyone is interested, they can find it at:
http://www.eden-foundation.org/products/code/film_date_stamp/
Any tips for doing this with Quicktime files?
Josef

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