[Ffmpeg-cvslog] CVS: ffmpeg/libavcodec utils.c, 1.173, 1.174 avcodec.h, 1.455, 1.456

[Rich Felker]

On Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 09:55:02PM +0100, Alex Beregszaszi wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> > well, if both are 32bit ints and just the max/min is different then i have
> > no objections against S24
> 
> Anyway, this should be documented :)
> 
> Also I dont think 24bit has any advantages over 16bit (when dealing with
> crappy digitized audio anyways), but converting it down in every codec
> is not a good idea.

It has an advantage in shitty mismastered files that only use 8bits of
the dynamic range.

Rich