[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] encode mov metadata to UTF-8

[Michael Niedermayer]

On Tue, Feb 02, 2010 at 07:45:45PM +0100, Reimar D?ffinger wrote:
> Hello,
> not sure if it is correct, since it assumes metadata is store in latin-1 for
> all the cases that code handles, however it fixes the output for
> http://samples.mplayerhq.hu/V-codecs/SVQ3/Vertical400kbit.sorenson3.mov
> correctly displaying the (c) sign (on and UTF-8 console at least).

what about some function that takes a string and returns a guess if its
more likely latin1 or utf8 ?
I think the probability of random latin1 to parse as valid utf8 is low

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