[FFmpeg-devel] skip multiple id3v2 headers

Michael Niedermayer michaelni
Wed Sep 8 23:15:06 CEST 2010


On Wed, Sep 08, 2010 at 09:12:15AM -0700, David Byron wrote:
> > the question remains why the headers are skiped and not parsed
> 
> It's a judgement call.  I figure the way additional headers got there is
> that some tool put a new header at the beginning of the file without
> realizing there was one already there, making the one at the beginning the
> right one.
> 
> As well, once there are multiple headers in a file, I'd expect most tools to
> only manipulate the first one, leaving any additional ones alone.  It
> definitely feels like the one at the beginning is the most important.
> 
> It's also way simpler to ignore all the others than to try to handle
> conflicts, etc.

have you an actual example of a conflict?
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