[Libav-user] libavcodec: Reading fine-grained AAC channel layout

[Peter Krefting]

Hi!

I am trying to use libavcodec and libavutil to read the channel layout from two 
different AAC stream, which are signalled according to the ARIB STD-B32 Part 2 
[1]. The first stream has the channel configuration set to 2 ("2ch"), which 
show up just fine as "stereo" when calling av_bprint_channel_layout().

However, the other stream has the channel configuration set to 0 and uses the 
program config element to set up a "dual mono" stream by giving me a front left 
and front right channel encoded as two different single channel elements (this 
is from my trace printouts added to aacdec_template.c):

   e2c_vec[0] = { left,  SCE, elem_id = 0, aac_pos = 1 }
   e2c_vec[1] = { right, SCE, elem_id = 0, aac_pos = 1 }

FFmpeg tells me "stereo" for av_bprint_channel_layout() for this mapping as 
well, which I can understand why. Is there any API I can call to check the 
number of input channels (to return 1 for the CPE stereo and 2 for the SCE 
dual-mono), to distinguish between the two?


[1] http://www.arib.or.jp/english/html/overview/doc/6-STD-B32v3_11-2p3-E1.pdf

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