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

[Baptiste Coudurier]

On 7/27/10 11:41 PM, Anton Khirnov wrote:
> 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.

Yes, I agree. These tags should not be retained. Besides, there is a bug 
about chapters that are retained by default, see roundup. This should be 
fixed ;)

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