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

[Anton Khirnov]

Quoting Lynne (2021-12-09 12:21:14)
> 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,

I fail to see how, since almost no code stores AVChannel directly.

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Anton Khirnov