[Libav-user] Noise on mms-stream playing

[Carl Eugen Hoyos]

Carl Eugen Hoyos <cehoyos at ...> writes:

> Alexey Belkevich <belkevich at ...> writes:
> 
> > This used to be s16, you have to update your source code.
> > 
> > Ok, here it is output of ffmpeg
> 
> It appears that my sentence above was unclear - sorry!

Third try:
;-)

> You have to update your source code because FFmpeg does 
> not output decoded wma as s16 anymore.

If I understand your use-case correctly, you have written 
a software that uses libavcodec internally to decode wma.
Your software works fine with older versions of libavcodec 
(FFmpeg 0.11) but not with newer versions of libavcodec 
(although ffmpeg - the command line application - still 
works fine, its console outputs looks slightly different 
though).

The reason is that the wma decoder has changed. wma 
internally uses floats, in the past (until FFmpeg 0.11) 
these floats were converted to s16 (16 bit integer) inside 
the decoder. For clarity reasons, it was decided that it 
makes no sense to convert these floats into int's inside 
the decoder.
The decoder now outputs (planar) floats (the native wma format), 
assuming you need int's (s16) in your application, you now have 
to use the aconvert filter (or libswresample directly) to 
convert from float to int16.

Please understand that it is not a solution for you to use 
0.11 forever because new features are not backported to 
old versions of FFmpeg.

I hope that clears it up, Carl Eugen