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show_metadata.c
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22 
23 /**
24  * @file libavformat metadata extraction API usage example
25  * @example show_metadata.c
26  *
27  * Show metadata from an input file.
28  */
29 
30 #include <stdio.h>
31 
32 #include <libavformat/avformat.h>
33 #include <libavutil/dict.h>
34 
35 int main (int argc, char **argv)
36 {
37  AVFormatContext *fmt_ctx = NULL;
38  const AVDictionaryEntry *tag = NULL;
39  int ret;
40 
41  if (argc != 2) {
42  printf("usage: %s <input_file>\n"
43  "example program to demonstrate the use of the libavformat metadata API.\n"
44  "\n", argv[0]);
45  return 1;
46  }
47 
48  if ((ret = avformat_open_input(&fmt_ctx, argv[1], NULL, NULL)))
49  return ret;
50 
51  if ((ret = avformat_find_stream_info(fmt_ctx, NULL)) < 0) {
52  av_log(NULL, AV_LOG_ERROR, "Cannot find stream information\n");
53  return ret;
54  }
55 
56  while ((tag = av_dict_iterate(fmt_ctx->metadata, tag)))
57  printf("%s=%s\n", tag->key, tag->value);
58 
60  return 0;
61 }
Main libavformat public API header.
static AVFormatContext * fmt_ctx
Public dictionary API.
int avformat_open_input(AVFormatContext **ps, const char *url, const AVInputFormat *fmt, AVDictionary **options)
Open an input stream and read the header.
int avformat_find_stream_info(AVFormatContext *ic, AVDictionary **options)
Read packets of a media file to get stream information.
void avformat_close_input(AVFormatContext **s)
Close an opened input AVFormatContext.
const AVDictionaryEntry * av_dict_iterate(const AVDictionary *m, const AVDictionaryEntry *prev)
Iterate over a dictionary.
#define AV_LOG_ERROR
Something went wrong and cannot losslessly be recovered.
Definition: log.h:180
void av_log(void *avcl, int level, const char *fmt,...) av_printf_format(3
Send the specified message to the log if the level is less than or equal to the current av_log_level.
int main(int argc, char **argv)
Definition: show_metadata.c:35
char * key
Definition: dict.h:90
char * value
Definition: dict.h:91
Format I/O context.
Definition: avformat.h:1104
AVDictionary * metadata
Metadata that applies to the whole file.
Definition: avformat.h:1330