[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] Online audio stream switching

[D Richard Felker III]

On Thu, Mar 24, 2005 at 05:00:04PM +0100, Guillaume POIRIER wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Michael Behrisch a écrit :
> >>>>>Well, if it checks the format to ensure no crashing, I say it's a very
> >>>>>good thing to have.  What's the down side when compared to no switching
> >>>>>at all?
> >>>>
> >>>>If it's safe, I agree, it's ok to add. 
> >>>
> >>>I double-checked, AC3 and DTS work perfectly although I must admit that 
> >>>I have only
> >>>one DVD with more than one DTS stream. 
> >>
> >>Did anyone have a real look at it?
> >>Someone who dares to commit?
> >
> >
> >Two and a half weeks gone without an answer. Anyone out
> >there looking at this? I remember mails saying they would kill
> >for this feature. Where are those fans? Support me ;-)
> >
> >Old patch did not apply anymore, thus
> >new one attached.
> 
> Your patch is indeed interesting, and by a quick glance at it, fairly 
> small. My opinion about it, if it works, is that it could be integrated 
> if marked as "BETA code" on the man page, just like the "-fixed-vo" 
> switch, which is fairly useful too.
> 
> Does you patch still has issues with switching between different codecs 
> such as DTS, AC3, MP3, Ogg?

It skips over all streams with different codec, so it might actually
be safe...

Rich