[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH 000/279] New channel layout API

[Nicolas George]

Anton Khirnov (12021-12-09):
> I fail to see how that is an advantage. You can just as well create
> multiple instances of those single-stream filters instead of adding
> hacks into core APIs.

Please think a little further: multiple instances of the single-stream
filters would not have access to all the channels.

> "possibly" is not a strong enough argument. I'd like to hear at least
> one clearly-defined use case that cannot just as well be handled by
> using multiple streams.

This was a discussion for when the device was implemented. Now, it works
that way, the new API has to accommodate it.

Anyway, these are just two example. I am sure we could find other
examples easily if we tried. It would be pretty stupid of us to add a
new API that is barely better than the current one and that we know is
too limited for likely use cases.

Regards,

-- 
  Nicolas George
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