@ -298,6 +298,11 @@ struct AVDeviceCapabilitiesQuery;
* - sorting - - a modified version of a tag that should be used for
* sorting will have ' - sort ' appended . E . g . artist = " The Beatles " ,
* artist - sort = " Beatles, The " .
* - Some protocols and demuxers support metadata updates . After a successful
* call to av_read_packet ( ) , AVFormatContext . event_flags or AVStream . event_flags
* will be updated to indicate if metadata changed . In order to detect metadata
* changes on a stream , you need to loop through all streams in the AVFormatContext
* and check their individual event_flags .
*
* - Demuxers attempt to export metadata in a generic format , however tags
* with no generic equivalents are left as they are stored in the container .
@ -892,6 +897,14 @@ typedef struct AVStream {
*/
int nb_side_data ;
/**
* Flags for the user to detect events happening on the stream . Flags must
* be cleared by the user once the event has been handled .
* A combination of AVSTREAM_EVENT_FLAG_ * .
*/
int event_flags ;
# define AVSTREAM_EVENT_FLAG_METADATA_UPDATED 0x0001 ///< The call resulted in updated metadata.
/*****************************************************************
* All fields below this line are not part of the public API . They
* may not be used outside of libavformat and can be changed and
@ -1433,6 +1446,15 @@ typedef struct AVFormatContext {
*/
int strict_std_compliance ;
/**
* Flags for the user to detect events happening on the file . Flags must
* be cleared by the user once the event has been handled .
* A combination of AVFMT_EVENT_FLAG_ * .
*/
int event_flags ;
# define AVFMT_EVENT_FLAG_METADATA_UPDATED 0x0001 ///< The call resulted in updated metadata.
/**
* Transport stream id .
* This will be moved into demuxer private options . Thus no API / ABI compatibility