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

Vladimir Pantelic vladoman
Wed Jul 28 08:47:48 CEST 2010


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.

it is very useful to some projects that need to know the "doctype"
in order to break video playback:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=580982




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