[gst-devel] reading meta-data information

[Tim Müller]

On Thu, 2007-10-18 at 19:42 +0530, Vinod Nanjaiah wrote:

> I am trying to extract the meta data information of media files.
> The example code provided in /gstreamer-0.10.14/tests/examples/metadata
> provides stream tags as follows:
>       ID3v2 frame: ???
>                  : ???
>                  : ???
>                  : ???
>                  : ???
>                  : ???
>             genre: Rock
>             title: Kya Mujhe Pyaar Hai - Remix
>            artist: Kay Kay
>             album: Woh Lamhe
>              date: 0200-01-01
>           comment:  @ Fmw11.co
> 
> The example code uses "decodebin" element.
> 
> When I used "mad" instead of "decodebin" to playback the same media file and
> print meta data it gave the following stream-info, but none of the previous
> ones.
>      	duration: 252000000000
> 	bitrate: 278876
> 	layer: 3
> 	mode: stereo
> 	emphasis: none
> 	audio codec: MPEG-1 layer 3
> 
> What is the best way to playback a media file and also display ALL the
> metadata info?

This was a bug in the example code - it didn't merge the tag lists
correctly (should use _KEEP or _APPEND merge mode rather than
_KEEP_ALL).  This is fixed in CVS now.

 Cheers
  -Tim