[Bug 682615] Matroska: expand tag mapping

[GStreamer (bugzilla.gnome.org)]

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=682615
  GStreamer | gst-plugins-good | git

--- Comment #6 from Sebastian Dröge <slomo at circular-chaos.org> 2012-10-26 08:14:19 UTC ---
(In reply to comment #2)
> To developers: What do you think about expanding official GStreamer tag list
> with new GST_TAG_* definitions?
> 
> There aren't that many tag systems in the world (id3*, Matroska, Ogg Comments,
> APE, MOV/MP4 - that's about all, i think?). Creating GStreamer counterparts for
> each tag in these systems (that isn't already defined) would increase the
> number of tags significantly (possibly up to 100-200), but it's still a finite
> number.
> 
> Some tags might be viewed as being too elaborately detailed, and can be
> replaced with generic versions (say, "SCRIPT_BY", "DIRECTOR", "EDITED_BY" and
> other Matroska tags can be replaced with a single generic "CONTRIBUTOR" tag
> that will hold multiple values). If that is done, the number of new tags will
> drop dramatically.

Sounds like a good idea but should be done in a different bug

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