[MPlayer-dev-eng] Support for new sample formats

[Diego Biurrun]

Hi Anders!

Could you update the man page with the new options, please?
Thanks

Diego

Anders Johansson writes:
 > 
 > There is support for new types of sample formats in the audio
 > filters. The new types are ima-adpcm, A-law, mu-law and float.
 > 
 > Try this for example:
 > mplayer -v -af format=4:float_be,format=1:alaw,format=2:int_le  -af-adv force=3 movie.avi
 > 
 > The format is read from the command line in (semi) human readable
 > format:
 > 
 > float or int (default is int)
 > alaw, mulaw or imaadpcm
 > le or be - little or big endian (default is native endian)
 > us or si - unsigned or signed int (default is signed)
 > 
 > define the desired format with _ between the words, example:
 > 
 > format=2:be_us_int 
 > 
 > would give 16bit big-endian unsigned int.
 > 
 > 
 > 
 > There is also a change to the volume control the volume is set with
 > only one parameter that affects all the channels:
 > 
 > volume=-12.0:...
 > 
 > would give an attenuation of 12 dB on all channels (the other
 > parameters are the same as previously). 
 > 
 > I will soon fix this with a pan filter.