[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH 2/6] lavu/channel_layout: implement unknown layouts.

Michael Niedermayer michaelni at gmx.at
Wed Nov 28 20:53:01 CET 2012


On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 08:34:23PM +0100, Nicolas George wrote:
> L'octidi 8 frimaire, an CCXXI, Michael Niedermayer a écrit :
> > Iam not sure its a API break,
> > Currently if the layout is 0 or mismatching the channel count the
> > behavior is undefined. 
> 
> Both are wrong, but it does not matter.
> 
> > If we define that channel layout = 0 is allowed then this would only
> > add a definition where none was before.
> > 
> > but i may be missing something
> 
> You are missing something that I explained at least twice before: at the end
> of a lavfi filter, the channel layout is the currently the authoritative
> information about the number of channels, because the channel count field
> was introduced too recently.

then the layout could be hacked at the very end, while it stays
correct throughout the filter graph
And one coukd add a flag that prevents the layout from being hacked
so new applications can set that flag and wont be affected.



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