[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] Improve track number decoding for some WMA files

Patrice Bensoussan patrice.bensoussan
Sun Sep 9 15:51:20 CEST 2007


On 9 Sep 2007, at 14:37, Michael Niedermayer wrote:

> Hi
>
> On Sun, Sep 09, 2007 at 11:33:33AM +0100, Patrice Bensoussan wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> A few words about the problem: there are two ways to store the  
>> track number
>> information in WMA files. WM/Track (which is 0-based and is  
>> deprecated) and
>> WM/TrackNumber which is 1-based which is the recommended way to  
>> store this
>> information.
>>
>> Some WMA files contain both WM/Track and WM/TrackNumber but have an
>> incorrect value for WM/Track (1-based instead of 0-based). This  
>> patch makes
>> sure that WM/TrackNumber is used when present and that WM/Track value
>> doesn't overwrite the correct track number stored in WM/TrackNumber.
>> Basically WM/Track is ignored if WM/TrackNumber is present.
>
> does affect  WM/Track string and WM/Track interger? or just one of  
> them?
>

Affects WM/Track integer on the file I have. WM/TrackNumber should be  
the preferred way to read track number which is why I fixed both  
cases, integer and string. Anything wrong with this?

Patrice






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