Closed leo-barnes closed 10 months ago
I wonder if relying on order of items is reliable. Maybe using item references is more appropriate? or adding a property to the old items?
Maybe using item references is more appropriate?
Right, that's what I had in mind, but I realize now upon re-reading that it's not at all clear it's what I meant.
Accepted into AMD2
It's possible for an image item to reference multiple EXIF and XMP items. There are multiple closed-ecosystem use-cases where this might make sense:
But unless the parser has some kind of side information it's impossible for a parser to know what to do with them. XMP blobs can potentially be merged if they have different namespaces, but how do you merge two EXIF MakerNotes?
After discussing this a bit, I think it would make sense to add wording to MIAF that is similar to what WebP does:
Here's a relevant issue: https://github.com/AOMediaCodec/av1-avif/issues/193