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[Carl Eugen Hoyos]

Nicolas George <nicolas.george <at> normalesup.org> writes:

> The crux of the problem is this: in lavfi, the channel layout is mandatory
> and authoritative. A simple channel count field was added recently, but
> until the next major bump for lavfi, applications that use the
> channel_layout field are completely valid and must be supported.

I may simply misunderstand, but how is the fact that in some (most, 
nearly all) cases the layout is set is related to the fact that 
currently everything fails if the layout is not set (but the 
number of channels)?

Carl Eugen