[FFmpeg-devel] Multichannel WavPack support anyone?

[Martin Storsjö]

On Sun, 9 Jan 2011, Kostya wrote:

> On Sat, Jan 08, 2011 at 09:37:55PM +0000, Carl Eugen Hoyos wrote:
> > Kostya <kostya.shishkov <at> gmail.com> writes:
> > 
> > > While this works for WavPack, it breaks WavPack-in-Matroska.
> > 
> > You mean the patch would break currently working decoding of two channel wv in
> > mkv?
> 
> yes

That would break upgrade scenarios where lavc is updated while lavf isn't, 
too, right?

Could this extra prefix be signalled via some other avctx field (e.g. only 
having it present if channels > 2), to keep the output of current muxers 
compatible with future lavc? Or is this use case (wavpack in general) 
uncommon enough not to care about that scenario?

// Martin