[gst-devel] Tagging, media-info

[Andreas Rottmann]

in7y118 at public.uni-hamburg.de writes:

> The GStTag stuff is supposed to be a replacement for tags. (I 
> differentiate "tags" from "metadata". Tags are added information that can be 
> changed - title, author - where metadata includes information that can not be 
> chagned without reencoding - length, bitrate).
> I'm not sure what to do about metadata in the long run. (As information: I 
> intend to clear that up with the involved tagging coders - probably 
> Christophe, Colin, Thomas and some others - when Rhythmbox and probably media-
> info have been ported or are in the process and have some ideas what they need 
> (like length, ugh).
>
What do you mean by ported here?

> Anyway, media-info should be changed to use the new tagging stuff and then 
> media info can even write tags.
>
I'll look into this.

> Unfortunately it is extremely overengineered for current GStreamer 
> possibilites (and probably always was). So I tend to hate it. ;)
>
I'm don't have very much insight into the code yet, could you be a bit
more verbose?

Andy
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