[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] [RFC] avformat/options_table: do not merge sidedata by default

[Reimar Döffinger]

On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 10:11:32PM +0100, wm4 wrote:
> By the way, if you dislike side data as out-of-band mechanism so much,
> maybe you should have a look at the OGG metadata patches by Ben
> Boeckel, which uses side data to notify the libavformat user of
> mid-stream tag updates.

I forgot to say:
I am aware of it. I don't like it much. However it is probably one
of the least problematic uses of it, since nothing really bad happens
if it gets lost, and I lost the "fight" against side data anyway, so it would
be a silly place to start it again.
Or to put it differently: Since the data is only very loosely connected
to the stream, out-of-band is less problematic.