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Mention that metadata tags are (unvalidated) UTF-8. Patch by Anton Khirnov <wyskas gmail com>.
author rbultje
date Wed, 24 Feb 2010 18:01:44 +0000
parents 1481fbffd30b
children 0db115a3dbb4
files avformat.h
diffstat 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) [+]
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--- a/avformat.h	Wed Feb 24 11:43:33 2010 +0000
+++ b/avformat.h	Wed Feb 24 18:01:44 2010 +0000
@@ -63,7 +63,9 @@
 /*
  * Public Metadata API.
  * The metadata API allows libavformat to export metadata tags to a client
- * application using a sequence of key/value pairs.
+ * application using a sequence of key/value pairs. Like all strings in FFmpeg,
+ * metadata must be stored as UTF-8 encoded Unicode. Note that metadata
+ * exported by demuxers isn't checked to be valid UTF-8 in most cases.
  * Important concepts to keep in mind:
  * 1. Keys are unique; there can never be 2 tags with the same key. This is
  *    also meant semantically, i.e., a demuxer should not knowingly produce