[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH 001/279] Add a new channel layout API

[Lynne]

9 Dec 2021, 11:14 by anton at khirnov.net:

> Quoting Lynne (2021-12-08 13:53:52)
>
>> That's not a goal, it's anti-goal, and a cause for hysterical raisin
>> picking in the future.
>> Having an instantly debuggable structure rather than one that
>>
>
> Instantly debuggable structure?
>
> Again: very very little code needs to store actual AVChannels. In the
> submitted tree this is just af_join. So the gain from adding an offset
> would simplify very little code, while complicating all the callers
> dealing with masks, of which there are quite many.
>

It would make debugging much less hazardous,
and any code that deals with masks uses the existing
#defines. And even if it dealt directly, it's an offset that
can be #defined so users could directly map wavetableext
flags with a shift.