[FFmpeg-devel] [RFC][PATCH] metadata name

Ronald S. Bultje rsbultje
Fri Oct 30 19:11:42 CET 2009


Hi,

On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 6:54 PM, Baptiste Coudurier
<baptiste.coudurier at gmail.com> wrote:
> Then, I noticed that using "author" for songs might not be adequate. Many
> software seems to be using "artist", especially iTunes which is the
> reference for .m4a at least, id3.org mentions "lead performer" for TPE1.

Seems fine with me ("composer").

> I suggest we start listing all the metadata exported somewhere (any
> suggestion ?), and mention which demuxer exports it. What do you think ?
[..]
> It would be nice to write the adopted practice somewhere also. I believe
> metadata should be documented very well to be used correctly.

I'd be very happy to see this happen.

Ronald



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