[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH]lavf/mov: Export vendor metadata

[Carl Eugen Hoyos]

2017-01-27 10:29 GMT+01:00 wm4 <nfxjfg at googlemail.com>:
> On Fri, 27 Jan 2017 10:19:32 +0100
> Carl Eugen Hoyos <ceffmpeg at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 2017-01-27 10:09 GMT+01:00 wm4 <nfxjfg at googlemail.com>:
>> > On Fri, 27 Jan 2017 09:39:03 +0100
>> > Carl Eugen Hoyos <ceffmpeg at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> >> 2017-01-27 9:17 GMT+01:00 wm4 <nfxjfg at googlemail.com>:
>> >>
>> >> > You're completely misunderstanding.
>> >>
>> >> Would you mind to elaborate?
>> >
>> > FFmpeg shouldn't mux codec-specific tags into a different
>> > container.
>>
>> This is not codec-specific, at least not in the sense that
>> would make a difference for other containers.
>>
>> > Your ffmpeg.c patch works for transcoding only, not remuxing.
>>
>> That's because it makes sense to remux "vendor" metadata.
>
> No, technical metadata that is "hidden" is different from user-visible
> tags that contain non-technical information about the media.

This is non-technical information that should be user-visible.

Carl Eugen