[Bug 753631] New: qtdemux: Read iTunes m4a/mp4 music tags

[GStreamer (GNOME Bugzilla)]

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=753631

            Bug ID: 753631
           Summary: qtdemux: Read iTunes m4a/mp4 music tags
    Classification: Platform
           Product: GStreamer
           Version: git master
                OS: Linux
            Status: NEW
          Severity: enhancement
          Priority: Normal
         Component: gst-plugins-good
          Assignee: gstreamer-bugs at lists.freedesktop.org
          Reporter: nirbheek.chauhan at gmail.com
        QA Contact: gstreamer-bugs at lists.freedesktop.org
     GNOME version: ---

We need to read the proprietary iTunes tags to get gapless playback support for
m4a files with fixed frame sizes.

$ GST_DEBUG=qtdemux:2 gst-discoverer-1.0 -v test.m4a
Analyzing file:///[path]/test.m4a
[snip]
0:00:00.070971448 30899 0x7f767805c230 WARN                 qtdemux
qtdemux.c:10436:qtdemux_tag_add_revdns:<qtdemux0> This tag
com.apple.iTunes:iTunSMPB type:1 is not mapped, file a bug at
bugzilla.gnome.org
0:00:00.071004339 30899 0x7f767805c230 WARN                 qtdemux
qtdemux.c:10436:qtdemux_tag_add_revdns:<qtdemux0> This tag
com.apple.iTunes:iTunNORM type:1 is not mapped, file a bug at
bugzilla.gnome.org
0:00:00.071016068 30899 0x7f767805c230 WARN                 qtdemux
qtdemux.c:10436:qtdemux_tag_add_revdns:<qtdemux0> This tag
com.apple.iTunes:iTunMOVI type:1 is not mapped, file a bug at
bugzilla.gnome.org
[snip]

The iTunSMPB tag contains information about how to do gapless playback. This is
needed for bug 746109. See:
http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=65076

iTunNORM contains volume normalization information (perhaps this is useful for
music/video players?)

iTunMOVI is an XML file with various metadata about the file. See:
https://bitbucket.org/wez/atomicparsley/issues/1/itunes-atom-itunmovi

We should expose all this information.


Besides this, there's some QuickTime nodes that we don't know about and emit a
warn for:

0:00:00.069971524 30899 0x7f767805c230 WARN                 qtdemux
qtdemux_types.c:209:qtdemux_type_get: unknown QuickTime node type cnID
0:00:00.070032099 30899 0x7f767805c230 WARN                 qtdemux
qtdemux_types.c:209:qtdemux_type_get: unknown QuickTime node type rtng
0:00:00.070046083 30899 0x7f767805c230 WARN                 qtdemux
qtdemux_types.c:209:qtdemux_type_get: unknown QuickTime node type atID
0:00:00.070056063 30899 0x7f767805c230 WARN                 qtdemux
qtdemux_types.c:209:qtdemux_type_get: unknown QuickTime node type cmID
0:00:00.070067572 30899 0x7f767805c230 WARN                 qtdemux
qtdemux_types.c:209:qtdemux_type_get: unknown QuickTime node type plID
0:00:00.070081820 30899 0x7f767805c230 WARN                 qtdemux
qtdemux_types.c:209:qtdemux_type_get: unknown QuickTime node type geID
0:00:00.070097419 30899 0x7f767805c230 WARN                 qtdemux
qtdemux_types.c:209:qtdemux_type_get: unknown QuickTime node type akID
0:00:00.070112155 30899 0x7f767805c230 WARN                 qtdemux
qtdemux_types.c:209:qtdemux_type_get: unknown QuickTime node type stik
0:00:00.070126745 30899 0x7f767805c230 WARN                 qtdemux
qtdemux_types.c:209:qtdemux_type_get: unknown QuickTime node type xid 

Some of these are useful (rtng = content rating). Some are not. We should know
about these and discard/use as appropriate. See:
https://code.google.com/p/mp4v2/wiki/iTunesMetadata

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