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| author | Anton Khirnov <wyskas@gmail.com> | 2010-02-24 18:01:44 +0000 |
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| committer | Ronald S. Bultje <rsbultje@gmail.com> | 2010-02-24 18:01:44 +0000 |
| commit | 6164842300184ac19496192d2dd2fa3e5c2eafa6 (patch) | |
| tree | 0b7835282ba3744d67c85d5a46c8af1a9ea55515 /libavformat | |
| parent | 6d0155c79c5a30ecea5be1edac47c1f412a7a124 (diff) | |
Mention that metadata tags are (unvalidated) UTF-8.
Patch by Anton Khirnov <wyskas gmail com>.
Originally committed as revision 22028 to svn://svn.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg/trunk
Diffstat (limited to 'libavformat')
| -rw-r--r-- | libavformat/avformat.h | 4 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/libavformat/avformat.h b/libavformat/avformat.h index 65e4a84c9d..e7426aa16d 100644 --- a/libavformat/avformat.h +++ b/libavformat/avformat.h @@ -63,7 +63,9 @@ struct AVFormatContext; /* * Public Metadata API. * The metadata API allows libavformat to export metadata tags to a client - * application using a sequence of key/value pairs. + * application using a sequence of key/value pairs. Like all strings in FFmpeg, + * metadata must be stored as UTF-8 encoded Unicode. Note that metadata + * exported by demuxers isn't checked to be valid UTF-8 in most cases. * Important concepts to keep in mind: * 1. Keys are unique; there can never be 2 tags with the same key. This is * also meant semantically, i.e., a demuxer should not knowingly produce |