[FFmpeg-devel] [RFC][PATCH] ffmpeg: add option to transform metadata using iconv

[Nicolas George]

Le primidi 1er vendémiaire, an CCXXIV, James Darnley a écrit :
> At present it only converts global metadata as that is what I wanted to do.  It
> should be possible to extend it so that the conversion can be different for
> different files or streams.
> ---
>  doc/ffmpeg.texi |   6 +++
>  ffmpeg.c        |  15 ++++++
>  ffmpeg.h        |   1 +
>  ffmpeg_opt.c    | 149 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
>  4 files changed, 169 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/doc/ffmpeg.texi b/doc/ffmpeg.texi
> index f4ffc6c..d4c1c23 100644
> --- a/doc/ffmpeg.texi
> +++ b/doc/ffmpeg.texi
> @@ -855,6 +855,12 @@ such streams is attempted.
>  Allow input streams with unknown type to be copied instead of failing if copying
>  such streams is attempted.
>  
> + at item -metadata_iconv_code_page_list @var{code_page_list}
> +Force the metadata from input files to be converted through the given codepages
> +using iconv. This allows the user to correct
> + at uref{https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mojibake, mojibake} providing they know the
> +correct code pages to use.

I will have some more technical comments later. For now, I would just remark
that I believe "code page" is not the wording I would suggest: it refers to
proprietary and obsolete implementations. IMHO, the best way to refer to
this is "character encoding".

Regards,

-- 
  Nicolas George
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