[FFmpeg-devel] [FFmpeg-user] BUG in use of extradata and extradata_size with dvb subtitles and teletext

[Reimar Döffinger]

On Wed, Jan 01, 2014 at 01:12:17AM +0100, Reimar Döffinger wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 30, 2013 at 11:44:16AM +0200, Andriy Lysnevych wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > We are almost done with patch that fixes DVB subtitles and teletext issues.
> > 
> > We are doing 2 things in this patch:
> > 
> > 1) Removing dependency on extradata. All the values that currently stored
> > in extradatata will be generated from metadata. For example in case of DVB
> > subtitles metadata will hold the following values:
> > 
> > language
> > subtitling_type
> > composition_page_id
> > ancillary_page_id
> > 
> > This values will be used for correct PMT generation. The values can be
> > comma separated because one DVB subtitle stream can carry few subtitle
> > substreams of different language, type, etc.
> 
> Sorry, but metadata is still unacceptable for this.
> You could change extradata to be in some textual format, but even that
> is questionable.
> If you want to specify _options_ to the muxer you should use the
> _option_ support, not pass options as metadata, which they clearly are
> not.

Yeah, and I seem to be reading emails in backwards order, so that might
explain why it is a bit strange.
Either way, the point is I am quite sure there's ways to do whatever you
want to achieve that are less problematic than using metadata...