[FFmpeg-user] Naming chapters in Matroska video

[Paul B Mahol]

On Fri, Feb 19, 2021 at 7:58 AM John Finlay via ffmpeg-user <
ffmpeg-user at ffmpeg.org> wrote:

> On 2/18/2021 5:48 PM, Jim DeLaHunt wrote:
> > On 2021-02-18 15:05, Paul B Mahol wrote:
> >
> >> Everything  is explained in documentation. My time is very limited.
> >
> > No, not everything about FFmpeg's handling of metadata is explained in
> > FFmpeg's documentation. For example, the -map_metdata section[1] does
> > not link to the -map_chapters[2] section nor to the Metadata[3]
> > section of the documentation.  None of those three places explain
> > FFmpeg's data model for metadata: that is, what metadata is, what its
> > contents can be, how it relates to the media content. The
> > -map_chapters section talks about "chapters" without defining what
> > that term means.  I could list many more things which are not
> > explained in the documentation.
> >
> > Your are of course entitled to limit the time you spend answering
> > questions here. You do regularly answer questions here, and that is a
> > generous gift. Thank you. But you are not entitled to pretend that the
> > documentation explains fully, when it does not.
> >
> > [1] http://ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg-all.html#Advanced-options, search for
> > "-map_metadata"
> > [2] http://ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg-all.html#Advanced-options, search for
> > "-map_chapters"
> > [3] http://ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg-all.html#Metadata-1
> >
> > Best regards,
> >     —Jim DeLaHunt
> >
> >
>
> If the documentation for Metadata is correct then there is a bug in
> ffmpeg because the example commands to extract, edit and reinsert the
> edited metadata do not work for chapter metadata.
>

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