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

Michael Behrisch behrisch at informatik.hu-berlin.de
Tue Mar 29 14:09:37 CEST 2005


On Thu, Mar 24, 2005 at 12:55:18PM -0500, D Richard Felker III wrote:
> 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...

So one might actually commit ;-)

Michael




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