[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] avfilter/af_amerge: add reorder_inputs option to be able to turn off reordering

[Michael Niedermayer]

On Mon, Sep 05, 2016 at 04:43:02PM +0200, Nicolas George wrote:
> Le decadi 20 fructidor, an CCXXIV, Marton Balint a écrit :
> > The order of the channels to remain unchanged regardless of the input
> > channel layout (which is often guessed only). Filtering in ffmpeg is
> > unfortunately forcing you to use channel layouts, even if you don't want to,
> > even if you only want to say: this track has 2 channels, that stream track
> > has 1 channels. Don't assume anything else.
> 
> I feel Carl Eugen has the right of it.
> 

> libavfilter can work with streams with unknown layouts, but some individual
> filters may not. To make them work is relatively easy. First, make sure they
> do not use the channel layout: most filters from the fork will use the
> channel layout to know the number of channels, we have a separated field for
> that. Then declare accordingly the list of formats in query formats.

is there some easy way to identify test for filters that require
the layout unneccessary ?
"git grep av_get_channel_layout_nb_channels" and manual checking ?

I might be interrested to help fixing these ...

thx
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