[gst-devel] tags and metadata

[Benjamin Otte]

On Thu, 22 Jan 2004, Mathrick wrote:

> GST_TAG_FLAGS_INFO ? That indicates the tag is info about stream, not
> settable (where settable == "imaginable to set in certain
> circumstances") property.
>
But even length-streaminfo is imaginable to be settable as length-metadata
:p

> I suppose this mechanism would provide a way to manipulate both "length"
> metadata and "length" streaminfo, without having one shadowing other
> one?
>
Tough to do, because different tags are seperated by their name. And you
don't want to have one named "length-streaminfo" and one named
"length-metadata".

Benjamin