On 12/06/14 20:02, Andrew Stone wrote:
> What are you guys thinking? I'm seeing the cleanest solution as being:
> 
> * Remove av_metadata_updated() and move any metadata copying/change
> detection into read/seek
> * The application will then have to check metadata dicts for updates
> 
> From the proposed changes, I'm seeing the following problems:
> 
> 1) Dropping versioning from AVDict and changing to a flag would result
> in problems when multiple things want to watch metadata.
> 
> 2) Dropping versioning from AVDict and setting a flag in
> AVFormatContext, AVStream, etc would require modifications to each
> demuxer to know about the flags and when to set them. It's been
> mentioned that modifying AVDict with a version just seems too
> single-use for living in a generic structure, but off the top of my
> head, the following use versions/some form of change tracking for hash
> tables: glib, Java, Python, C#, objective-c. This is, I think, a
> fairly-normal pattern that is actually kinda nice to have around.

I'm not against the version approach and I like better the idea of
setting it on read since it is a well defined checkpoint.

How the version field is used in those scenarios? Probably we could
learn from them a little more.

Thanks a lot for helping us improving Libav =)

lu
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