[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH v2] lavf/movenc: write track title metadata for mov files

Derek Buitenhuis derek.buitenhuis at gmail.com
Tue Mar 20 16:12:04 EET 2018


On 3/20/2018 8:31 AM, Carl Eugen Hoyos wrote:
> More precisely: I asked you if it is well-defined (assuming it is not since
> this is the only reason I can think of it was not used so far).

He linked to the definition in the QTFF spec directly above, so it is
certainly defined, at least.

On 3/20/2018 4:48 AM, Courtland Idstrom wrote:
> From the spec, '©nam' appears to be a localized entry, which can also be
> set per-track in Quicktime (exposed via their annotations editor). Name
> appears to be the primary non-localized field used to identify the track,
> which is the value I'm looking to set. I started with a Quicktime file as
> my target (for some post production work), and worked backwards to figure
> out how this field was encoded.

I am OK with the patch so long as it matches the behavior of how QuickTime
Pro (or FCP) creates files, as those are the normative references, more
or less.

- Derek


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