[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] movenc: Tag files generated with strict experimental with a warning

[Vittorio Giovara]

On Tue, Dec 6, 2016 at 10:50 AM, James Almer <jamrial at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 12/2/2016 5:17 PM, James Almer wrote:
>> On 12/2/2016 5:00 PM, Vittorio Giovara wrote:
>>> This will simplify identifying files that were generated with
>>> unfinished/incomplete/non-standard specifications.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Vittorio Giovara <vittorio.giovara at gmail.com>
>>> ---
>>>  libavformat/movenc.c | 2 ++
>>>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
>>
>> Maybe lavf and lavc should add "experimental" to the container and
>> stream's metadata alongside the library version, much like how we're
>> adding the name of the encoder alongside the lavc version to the
>> stream's metadata.
>>
>> A warning printed by the muxer not going to help once such a file
>> is in the wild.

Yeah I was unsure about that -- are you saying that whenever -strict
experimental is used we should add this tag regardless?

The idea behind this is that in the future, when the standard is
consolidated, if there is a file is in the wild encoded with an
"experimental" codec/container combination and it is not playing
correctly, this tag will make evident that the bug lies within the
file and the playback issues are probably due the unfinished state of
the specification, rather than in in the modern implementation of the
demuxer. In other words, people will be less inclined to hack around
their own demuxer to accommodate for broken files.
-- 
Vittorio