[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] Detect DNET/byte-swapped AC-3 and support decoding it directly.

[Kostya]

On Sat, Mar 05, 2011 at 03:34:32PM +0100, Reimar D?ffinger wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 05, 2011 at 02:53:13PM +0100, Kostya wrote:
> > On Sat, Mar 05, 2011 at 02:04:55PM +0100, Reimar D?ffinger wrote:
> > > On Sat, Mar 05, 2011 at 01:01:03PM +0000, M?ns Rullg?rd wrote:
> > > > And stop calling it dnet.
> > > 
> > > Holy fuck, the format's name is DNET, reality doesn't magically
> > > change just because you decide to not believe in it.
> > 
> > Dolby ships AC-3 reference samples in byteswapped format too,
> > should we call it "Dolby raw DNET" then?
> 
> Do they have any name for it?

I don't think so

> Can you point me to some samples?

no, they are reference samples which I don't have access to now.

> It's not that I am really opposed to a different name in principle,
> however the only case I have _ever_ seen it with a name is DNET
> (and I think it's fair to point out that I really called it
> "byte-swapped (dnet) format", not just "DNET").

Real is known to rename codecs (usually picking them at draft stage)