[vlc-devel] [PATCH] libvlc: add libvlc_media_get_codec_description

[Felix Paul Kühne]

> On 12 Jan 2015, at 23:10, Jean-Baptiste Kempf <jb at videolan.org> wrote:
> 
> On 12 Jan, Thomas Guillem wrote :
>> Get codec description from media elementary stream.
> 
> Is there a use case for that outside of the get_media_track_info?

Yes, because you frequently want to translate FOURCCs in libvlc applications into human-readable codec names.

This is exactly the API I was looking for recently.

Best regards,

Felix