[MPlayer-dev-eng] -format option obsolete?

[Diego Biurrun]

Diego Biurrun writes:
> 
> I'm in the (tedious) process of updating the audio filter
> documentation and noticed that the -format option is wrong now:
> 
> -format <0-8192>
>   Select the format used for output from the filter layer
>   (according to the defines in libao2/afmt.h):
>         1 Mu-Law
[...]
> 
> libao2/afmt.h was removed and supplanted by libaf/af_format.h I
> think.  However, I'm too lame to make much sense out of that file..

Alex fixed it to accept the same strings as af_format.

> What's the point of -format anyway?  How does it differ from the
> format audio filter?

Not at all, but MEncoder apparently has some bugs in conjunction with
af_format...

Diego