Metadata Providers in Windows Vista
In Windows Vista, Microsoft Media Foundation exposes metadata through the IMFMetadata interface.
Reading Metadata
To read metadata from a media source, perform the following steps:
- Get a pointer to the IMFMediaSource interface of the media source. You can use the IMFSourceResolver interface to get an IMFMediaSource pointer.
- Call IMFMediaSource::CreatePresentationDescriptor to get the media source's presentation descriptor.
- Call MFGetService on the media source to get a pointer to the IMFMetadataProvider interface. In the guidService parameter of MFGetService, specify the value MF_METADATA_PROVIDER_SERVICE. If the source does not support the IMFMetadataProvider interface, MFGetService returns MF_E_UNSUPPORTED_SERVICE.
- Call IMFMetadataProvider::GetMFMetadata and pass in a pointer to the presentation descriptor. This method returns a pointer to the IMFMetadata interface.
- To get stream-level metadata first call IMFStreamDescriptor::GetStreamIdentifier to get the stream identifier. Then pass the stream identifier in the dwStreamIdentifier parameter of GetMFMetadata.
- To get presentation-level metadata, set dwStreamIdentifier to zero.
- [Optional] Call IMFMetadata::GetAllLanguages to get a list of the languages in which metadata is available. Languages are identified using RFC 1766-compliant language tags.
- [Optional] Call IMFMetadata::SetLanguage to select the language.
- [Optional] Call IMFMetadata::GetAllPropertyNames to get a list of the names of all the metadata properties for this stream or presentation.
- Call IMFMetadata::GetProperty to get a specific metadata property value, passing in the name of the property.
The following code shows steps 2–4:
HRESULT GetMetadata(
IMFMediaSource *pSource, IMFMetadata **ppMetadata, DWORD dwStream = 0)
{
IMFPresentationDescriptor *pPD = NULL;
IMFMetadataProvider *pProvider = NULL;
HRESULT hr = pSource->CreatePresentationDescriptor(&pPD);
if (FAILED(hr))
{
goto done;
}
hr = MFGetService(
pSource, MF_METADATA_PROVIDER_SERVICE, IID_PPV_ARGS(&pProvider));
if (FAILED(hr))
{
goto done;
}
hr = pProvider->GetMFMetadata(pPD, dwStream, 0, ppMetadata);
done:
SafeRelease(&pPD);
SafeRelease(&pProvider);
return hr;
}
The following code shows steps 7–8. Assume that DisplayProperty
is a function that displays a PROPVARIANT value.
HRESULT DisplayMetadata(IMFMetadata *pMetadata)
{
PROPVARIANT varNames;
HRESULT hr = pMetadata->GetAllPropertyNames(&varNames);
if (FAILED(hr))
{
return hr;
}
for (ULONG i = 0; i < varNames.calpwstr.cElems; i++)
{
wprintf(L"%s\n", varNames.calpwstr.pElems[i]);
PROPVARIANT varValue;
hr = pMetadata->GetProperty( varNames.calpwstr.pElems[i], &varValue );
if (SUCCEEDED(hr))
{
DisplayProperty(varValue);
PropVariantClear(&varValue);
}
}
PropVariantClear(&varNames);
return hr;
}
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