[mythtv] [PATCH] mp4 metaio compilation support

Colin Guthrie myth at colin.guthr.ie
Tue Feb 8 08:38:48 UTC 2005


Lonnie Hutchinson wrote:
> This patch improves MP4 compilation handling. The compilation field is 
> empty, even for iTunes created files that are marked as having a 
> compilation; from looking at the source to the mp4ff library I think it 
> is a library limitation. The patch sets this field to "0" or "1", and 
> fixes a bug introduced by thor's commit that caused all tracks to be 
> marked as part of a compilation with "Unknown Artist".
> 
> Please commit this to CVS prior to 0.17 since what is in CVS doesn't 
> work very well (but at least it compiles :) ).

Cool. This will save me looking!

On a side note, would it be better to use the char storage for 
compilation to be the Compilation Artist rather than a simple 1 or 0?

If this field has data, then compilation = 1 else compilation = 0 and 
you also have the real compilation artist??

Col.


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