mån 2020-06-15 klockan 21:45 +0200 skrev Marton Balint:
> 
> On Mon, 15 Jun 2020, Tomas Härdin wrote:
> 
> > sön 2020-06-14 klockan 20:19 +0200 skrev Marton Balint:
> > > On Sun, 14 Jun 2020, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> > > 
> > > > Alternatively we could free the already allocated element
> > > 
> > > Yeah, I kind of prefer that, we potentially allow non-string values to 
> > > occur multiple times, so I'd say let's allow string values as well, even 
> > > if that is not common. (I am not sure if it is strictly invalid or just 
> > > uncommon).
> > 
> > Are there files in the wild that do this? Being stricter is often the
> > better option when it comes to MXF. A muxer that outputs metadata more
> > than once might be doing something wrong.
> 
> I am not sure, but I wanted to be safe rather than sorry, because it is 
> not unusual in MXF to repeat certain metadata in the footer partition 
> which is already present in the header, and I did not want to take the 
> risk of rejecting a valid file.

True, that is not unheard of. Maybe we could warn if the strings don't
match?

/Tomas

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