[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] Add af_resample - sample fmt and channel layout conversion filter

[Stefano Sabatini]

On date Monday 2010-09-27 02:21:49 +0200, Michael Niedermayer encoded:
> On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 12:40:31AM +0200, Stefano Sabatini wrote:
[...]
> > > the functions belong to libavfilter
> > > what is the plan to move them there?
> > 
> > Impossible as lavc uses that functions internally.  The plan was to
> 
> resample uses them, resample doesnt belong to lavc, not more than
> sws would belong there
> 
> 
> > directly use them, and move to something better when we'll have a
> > revisited resampling/conversion API, a libavresample was mentioned.
> > Since this is not going to take small time, the idea was to use the
> > quickest solution and not stall audio lavfi development.
> 
> the quickest is to copy the 2 pages of poor code not to export it as
> public ABI/API from the wrong lib
> that API/ABI requires maintaince and is not a small burden when things
> have to be moved to the correct place or when API/ABI changes which with
> such trashy code will happen unless development stops

OK so the quickest path looks like to duplicate the code as it was
done in the original version from Hemanth...

Regards.
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