lavf doxy: expand/reword metadata API doxy.

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Anton Khirnov 2011-12-10 20:39:39 +01:00
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@ -94,9 +94,15 @@ struct AVFormatContext;
* @{
* @ingroup libavf
* The metadata API allows libavformat to export metadata tags to a client
* application using a sequence of key/value pairs. Like all strings in Libav,
* metadata must be stored as UTF-8 encoded Unicode. Note that metadata
* application when demuxing. Conversely it allows a client application to
* set metadata when muxing.
*
* Metadata is exported or set as pairs of key/value strings in the 'metadata'
* fields of the AVFormatContext, AVStream, AVChapter and AVProgram structs
* using the @ref lavu_dict "AVDictionary" API. Like all strings in Libav,
* metadata is assumed to be UTF-8 encoded Unicode. Note that metadata
* exported by demuxers isn't checked to be valid UTF-8 in most cases.
*
* Important concepts to keep in mind:
* - Keys are unique; there can never be 2 tags with the same key. This is
* also meant semantically, i.e., a demuxer should not knowingly produce