On 12/2/2016 5:00 PM, Vittorio Giovara wrote:
> This will simplify identifying files that were generated with
> unfinished/incomplete/non-standard specifications.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Vittorio Giovara <vittorio.giov...@gmail.com>
> ---
>  libavformat/movenc.c | 2 ++
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/libavformat/movenc.c b/libavformat/movenc.c
> index dc19838..c46bea9 100644
> --- a/libavformat/movenc.c
> +++ b/libavformat/movenc.c
> @@ -5756,6 +5756,7 @@ static int mov_init(AVFormatContext *s)
>                             FF_COMPLIANCE_EXPERIMENTAL);
>                      return AVERROR_EXPERIMENTAL;
>                  }
> +                av_dict_set(&s->metadata, "WARNING", "This file was 
> generated using an unfinished specification, please don't modify your demuxer 
> to support it, should it not work", 0);
>              }
>          } else if (st->codecpar->codec_type == AVMEDIA_TYPE_AUDIO) {
>              track->timescale = st->codecpar->sample_rate;
> @@ -5802,6 +5803,7 @@ static int mov_init(AVFormatContext *s)
>                             FF_COMPLIANCE_EXPERIMENTAL);
>                      return AVERROR_EXPERIMENTAL;
>                  }
> +                av_dict_set(&s->metadata, "WARNING", "This file was 
> generated using an unfinished specification, please don't modify your demuxer 
> to support it, should it not work", 0);
>              }
>          } else if (st->codecpar->codec_type == AVMEDIA_TYPE_SUBTITLE) {
>              track->timescale = st->time_base.den;

Maybe lavf and lavc should add "experimental" to the container and
stream's metadata alongside the library version, much like how we're
adding the name of the encoder alongside the lavc version to the
stream's metadata.

A warning printed by the muxer not going to help once such a file
is in the wild.

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