On Wed, Aug 6, 2014 at 12:46 PM, wm4 <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wed, 06 Aug 2014 08:18:22 +0200
> Anton Khirnov <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>
>> On Tue,  5 Aug 2014 12:58:47 -0400, Andrew Stone <[email protected]> wrote:
>> > The only flags, for now, indicate if metadata was updated and are set 
>> > after each call to
>> > av_read_frame(). This comes with the caveat that, on stream start, it 
>> > might not be set properly
>> > as packets might be buffered in AVFormatContext.packet_buffer before being 
>> > given to the user
>> > in av_read_frame().
>> > ---
>> >  doc/APIchanges         |  4 ++++
>> >  libavformat/avformat.h | 14 ++++++++++++++
>> >  libavformat/version.h  |  2 +-
>> >  3 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>> >
>> > diff --git a/doc/APIchanges b/doc/APIchanges
>> > index 261993b..a677e42 100644
>> > --- a/doc/APIchanges
>> > +++ b/doc/APIchanges
>> > @@ -13,6 +13,10 @@ libavutil:     2013-12-xx
>> >
>> >  API changes, most recent first:
>> >
>> > +2014-xx-xx - xxxxxxx - lavf 55.21.0 - avformat.h
>> > +  Add AVFormatContext.event_flags for signaling to the user when events
>> > +  have happened in the stream.
>> > +
>> >  2014-07-xx - xxxxxxx - lavu 53.19.0 - avstring.h
>> >    Make name matching function from lavf public as av_match_name().
>> >
>> > diff --git a/libavformat/avformat.h b/libavformat/avformat.h
>> > index ab2081a..6b25d6a 100644
>> > --- a/libavformat/avformat.h
>> > +++ b/libavformat/avformat.h
>> > @@ -296,6 +296,10 @@ struct AVFormatContext;
>> >   *    -  sorting  -- a modified version of a tag that should be used for
>> >   *       sorting will have '-sort' appended. E.g. artist="The Beatles",
>> >   *       artist-sort="Beatles, The".
>> > + * - Some protocols and demuxers support metadata updates. After a 
>> > successful
>> > + *   call to av_read_packet(), AVFormatContext.event_flags will be 
>> > updated to
>> > + *   indicate if metadata was updated. Currently, only file 
>> > (AVFormatContext)
>> > + *   and stream (AVStream) metadata change.
>> >   *
>> >   * -  Demuxers attempt to export metadata in a generic format, however 
>> > tags
>> >   *    with no generic equivalents are left as they are stored in the 
>> > container.
>> > @@ -1177,6 +1181,16 @@ typedef struct AVFormatContext {
>> >       * @see AVCodecContext.strict_std_compliance
>> >       */
>> >      int strict_std_compliance;
>> > +
>> > +    /**
>> > +     * Flags for the user to detect events happening on the stream. Flags 
>> > must
>> > +     * be cleared by the user once the event has been handled.
>> > +     * A combination of AVFMT_EVENT_FLAG_*.
>> > +     */
>> > +    int event_flags;
>> > +#define AVFMT_EVENT_FLAG_METADATA_UPDATED        0x0001 ///< The call 
>> > resulted in updated metadata for the whole file.
>> > +#define AVFMT_EVENT_FLAG_STREAM_METADATA_UPDATED 0x0002 ///< The call 
>> > resulted in updated metadata for a stream.
>>
>> My original suggestion in the last thread was to have a separate set of flags
>> for each stream (+global). That way you can see which stream exactly got
>> updated.
>> Or is there some specific reason to put all the flags here?
>>
>
> You have a point. IMO the event flags should allow the user to know
> what exactly changed, without having to compare old and new metadata
> manually (because that would be a pain). If the event flags aren't
> per-AVStream, it's harder to tell which AVStream changed metadata.
>
> An _additional_ change flag in the AVFormatContext itself could still
> be useful, so you don't have to iterate over all streams every time
> just to check flags. But then maybe it should be something like
> AVFMT_EVENT_FLAG_STREAM_EVENTS_UPDATED?

A flag to indicate that a flag has been set? That seems like a bit too
much. I would honestly rather iterate the streams.
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