[Libav-user] Converting audio sample buffer format

["René J.V. Bertin"]

On Feb 26, 2013, at 20:44, Brad O'Hearne wrote:
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> This is being called to fill my sourceData array (allocated with av_samples_alloc) with the captured data in QTSampleBuffer. In noticing that most of these libswresample functions declare buffers as: 
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> const uint8_t *buf
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> what does this mean for sample data that is signed? is the fill function above performing a conversion of signed sample data to its 

I'm guessing nothing (and hoping that a fill function only copies data) ... uint8_t is just a way to say 'byte', and I presume that the const indicates that the function doesn't modify the array. What I don't dare to guess is why the void* type isn't used - is there a practical reason or only a 'programming principle' behind that?


R.