[gstreamer-bugs] [Bug 329184] New: [lame] remove tag writing support

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 GStreamer | gst-plugins-ugly | Ver: HEAD CVS

           Summary: [lame] remove tag writing support
           Product: GStreamer
           Version: HEAD CVS
          Platform: Other
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: Normal
         Component: gst-plugins-ugly
        AssignedTo: gstreamer-bugs at lists.sourceforge.net
        ReportedBy: t.i.m at zen.co.uk
         QAContact: gstreamer-bugs at lists.sourceforge.net
     GNOME version: Unspecified
   GNOME milestone: Unspecified


Tag writing support should be removed from the Lame plugin.

(It doesn't work anyway currently, as the last buffer isn't flushed on EOS, so
the tag is never pushed out in the current 0.10 version)

Reasons:

  a) it has never worked in the 0.10 series

  b) Lame only supports a very very small number of tags

  c) Lame only writes tags with ISO-8859-1 encoding, even
     when told to write ID3v2 tags, so a lot of users will
     never be able to write tags containing strings in
     their language with lame

  d) Lame writing tags causes problems when used with
     muxers like avidemux or matroskamux (although one
     could give lame a property to disable tag writing,
     but people would still need to find it and disable
     that).

I say let's remove it before it's too late and recommend id3mux as replacement
(and check that id3mux actually works).


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