[Libav-user] Audio quality loss while encoding

[Paul B Mahol]

On 4/24/13, Brad O'Hearne <brado at bighillsoftware.com> wrote:
> On Apr 24, 2013, at 10:57 AM, Paul B Mahol <onemda at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> For planar sample format, each channel is in separate array:
>>
>> channel left = data[0]
>> channel right = data[1]
>>
>> If you use more than 8 channels, use extended_data instead.
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> Paul -- thx for the reply. Fair enough on the above -- so as a contrast to
> this structure, what does the data array look like for a non-planar format
> with two channels?

Its one big array, only data[0] points to something.

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