[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH 0/1] fftools/ffprobe: dump contents of the AV_FRAME_DATA_SEI_UNREGISTERED

[Stefano Sabatini]

On date Monday 2023-12-18 19:06:10 +0000, Kieran Kunhya wrote:
> On Mon, 18 Dec 2023 at 14:59, Petr Matousek <petr.matousek at comprimato.com>
> wrote:
> 
> > Before this patch being applied the ffprobe just tells the user whether
> > the H.26[45] User Data Unregistered SEI message is present in the frame
> > side data
> > or not. After the patch being appliend it also dumps the contents of the
> > data
> > similar way as for the other already supported frame side data types.
> >
> > Petr Matousek (1):
> >   fftools/ffprobe: dump contents of the AV_FRAME_DATA_SEI_UNREGISTERED
> >
> 

> I don't think ffprobe should be dumping potentially large amounts of random
> SEI data to the terminal. Some encoders use this space for their own data
> and it's annoying to see it spam the terminal.

I'm not super concerned by this, since you can filter out the required
information. Also I don't see other viable alternatives to show this
information (moving this to metadata would require decoding).