[FFmpeg-devel] [HACK] parse m4a metadata

[Baptiste Coudurier]

Hey guys,

Mike Melanson wrote:
> Reimar D?ffinger wrote:
>> Hello,
>> with attached patch FFmpeg can read the metadata from
>> http://samples.mplayerhq.hu/A-codecs/lossless/luckynight.m4a
>> It is still quite ugly, and I do not want to spend any time on it, so
>> cleaning up is something that someone else must do.
> 
> Well, I guess it's a start. :) There are so many metadata tags supported 
> by this 0xA9+'xyz' format. In addition to nam, ART, cmt, alb, and trkn, 
> I also know of cpy (copyright date), des (description), gen (genre), too 
> (?), wrt (composer, presumably different from artist), and day (year? 
> perhaps full release date?). I'm pretty sure there are a lot more. I'm 
> just going off of my old xine demuxer which must have been based on 
> things I saw in the wild.
> 

I commited some code based on this patch.
About the strings, well, I'd say it's up to the user to convert for now.

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