On Wed, 6 Aug 2014 15:57:55 -0400, Andrew Stone <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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.

+1
meta-meta-flags are really rather overkill.

As for a single event flag vs per-stream event flags, i slightly prefer the
latter, but can live with either. So the patch is fine with me as is.

-- 
Anton Khirnov
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