Bug#739936: mpv: no 'ICY Info' metadata printed when playing from playlist stream

[Alessandro Ghedini]

Control: reassign -1 libavformat54
Control: retitle -1 libavformat54: support for ICY stream metadata (like ffmpeg)
Control: affects -1 mpv

On dom, feb 23, 2014 at 11:03:29 -0600, Brian Paterni wrote:
> Package: mpv
> Version: 0.3.5-1
> Severity: wishlist
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
> I sometimes use mpv to listen to online audio streams. Something useful that I
> find lacking in mpv but available in mplayer2 though is the output of stream
> metadata. mplayer2 for example displays the artist and title of the currently
> playing song. This is something I would like to have displayed in mpv's output
> as well, but either mpv currently doesn't have this ability or I can't seem to
> find how to tell it to do so.

The fact is, mpv relies on libav/ffmpeg for the http streaming handling while
mplayer2 implements its own parser.

So, mpv does support reading of ICY metadata, but it only works with a recent
enough version of ffmpeg, and AFAICT it doesn't work at all with libav.

So, I'm reassigning this to libav.

(I don't know what's the libav policy for merging stuff from ffmpeg, but the
ffmpeg commit that added support for this seems to be [0], which incidentally
was done by mpv's upstream author).

Cheers

[0] http://git.videolan.org/?p=ffmpeg.git;a=commit;h=a92fbe16f2dc118c0d3adc222484268831388648

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