[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCHv6 0/3] vorbis: update metadata mid-stream

Michael Niedermayer michaelni at gmx.at
Wed Feb 5 23:45:34 CET 2014


On Wed, Feb 05, 2014 at 12:10:53PM -0500, Ben Boeckel wrote:
> Finally got time to poke this again and flush out some memory leaks in the
> process.
> 
> Ogg/vorbis streams from MPD contain metadata updates mid-stream and need to be
> plumbed from ffmpeg. The ogg decoder in avformat needs a way for codecs to
> plumb up the metadata and then, finally, vorbis fills it in.
> 
> Patch 2 has ffmpeg combine multiple tags with the same name with semicolon
> separators. This is to prevent tags such as performer from only showing up as
> the last one in the file. When played using this branch, the following is
> output as metadata:
> 
>       RELEASETYPE     : album;remix
>       PERFORMER       : prophetik (saxophone);Usa (percussion)
> 
> without the patch, the following is shown instead:
> 
>       RELEASETYPE     : remix
>       PERFORMER       : Usa (percussion)
> 
> Testing with flac, mp3 (via lame; twolame untested), and ogg/opus in MPD (and
> one mp3 stream from somafm) shows no mid-stream tag updates (via dumpstream and
> grepping for the expected tag data), only ICY Info, so I have not updated these
> decoders. If other formats are found, the av_packet_pack_dictionary function
> should make things easy.
> 
> Ben Boeckel (3):
>   ogg: allow streams to update metadata
>   vorbis: append data from tags together
>   vorbis: extract metadata from the middle of a stream
> 
>  libavformat/oggdec.c         | 14 +++++++++++
>  libavformat/oggdec.h         |  2 ++
>  libavformat/oggparsevorbis.c | 60 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------
>  3 files changed, 67 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

patchset applied

thanks

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