[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] Export mkv doctype via the metadata API

[Anton Khirnov]

On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 07:51:24AM +0200, Reimar D?ffinger wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 12:31:05AM -0400, Alex Converse wrote:
> > We do something similar for mp4/mov.
> > 
> > If people think this is stupid then I won't put up much of a fuss.
> 
> I don't know. On the one hand it is useful, but it is stupid because
> other formats will write it in their metadata.
> Actually even the matroska muxer (if it supports/supported arbitrary metadata)
> would write "doctype" literally into the new file when remuxing, which
> does seem like not quite the intended behaviour...
Same applies to some other tags we already export, e.g. "encoder", mp4
brand stuff, etc. It seems we need a flag to mark these tags as
nontransferrable.

Anton Khirnov
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