[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH 001/244] Add a new channel layout API

[Anton Khirnov]

Quoting Nicolas George (2020-01-12 14:33:19)
> Anton Khirnov (12020-01-07):
> > Why would such filters exist and why would we accept them? I do not see
> > how can there be a clean user interface for a broken and undefined use
> > case.
> 
> They are already there, they work very well, and people use them. Their
> behavior is perfectly well defined, but to give them a good user
> interface requires channel names and duplication. It's too bad you
> invested a lot of work while forgetting about them.

You still did not say which filters those are, why do they need to
create streams with duplicate channels, or for that matter how they can
even do so when the current API does not support it.

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Anton Khirnov