[FFmpeg-devel] [BUG] Storage of 3gpp metadata in 3gp files

Baptiste Coudurier baptiste.coudurier
Fri May 29 10:42:28 CEST 2009


Hi,

Larbi Joubala wrote:
> Hi guys!
> 
>    I recently found that when I set metadata in 3gp files that the
> metadata are not displayed by any players or tools. I tested with
> QuickTime player and an other mp4/3gp/mov file analyzer
> tool("scenescope"). Then, to see where the issue comes from, I digged in
> the source code in paricularly "movenc.c" and I found out that the
> metadata are stored in UTF16 way but without the BOM(Byte Order Marker)
> to indicate the endianness. The 3gp standard say that the metadata value
> can be stored in UTF8 way or UTF16 way but for UTF16 the string value
> shall start with the following BOM 0xFFFE for big-endian.
> 
> Is this issue known and why don't store the metadata value with UTF8
> encoding characters to avoid to add the BOM in the beginning of the string?

UTF8 is prefered I think.

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