[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] small metadata API modifications

[Aurelien Jacobs]

Hi,

I've started looking at conversion of various (de)muxers to the new
metadata API. From this experience, I found 2 small problems in
the new metadata API. Well, not really problems... more like ugliness.

 - Almost all calls to av_metadata_get() will use the flag
   AV_METADATA_IGNORE_CASE. This creates extra long lines and makes
   the code harder to read almost everywhere.
   I propose to replace this flag by the opposit one: AV_METADATA_MATCH_CASE.
   There is no functionnal change, but most call to av_metadata_get()
   can just set flags to 0.
 - av_metadata_set() currently requires an AVMetadataTag as parameter.
   Most use case looks like this:
   av_metadata_set(&s->metadata, (const AVMetadataTag){"title", value});
   IMO this hurts readability, and moreover, this generates a warning
   (demoting const from "title").
   I propose to replace this by:
   av_metadata_set(&s->metadata, "title", value);
   It is smaller, more readable, more natural and has no const
   missmatch problem.

So those 2 changes are mostly cosmetics, but it really makes the
code nicer (IMO), and we should make such changes before declaring
the API stable.

Aurel
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