[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] add support for big-endian PCM output

[Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski]

On Wednesday, 21 March 2007 at 19:42, Giacomo Comes wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 05:11:29PM +0000, Grant Edwards wrote:
> > [I posted this to the mencoder-user list a while back. Judging
> > by the lack of any sort of rsopnse that was the wrong forum.]
> > 
> > I needed to be able to encode to 16-bit uncompressed big-endian
> > PCM.  I couldn't get either "-format sb16be" or "-af format=s16be" 
> > to encode to big-endian format, so I gave up and added a "pcms"
> > audio encoder that swaps the byte-order of the data stream.  In
> > order to get lavf containers to label the stream correctly, I
> > had to invent a new "wav" audio tag for big-endian PCM.
> > 
> > Although it works I have a feeling that this wasn't really the
> > "right" way to do it.  If anybody would care to comment or
> > suggest a better way to get big-endian PCM output please feel
> > free to do so.
> > 
> > Anyway, the patch is available at 
> > 
> > http://www.visi.com/~grante/sansa/mplayer-1.0rc1-encode-bigendian-pcm.patch
> 
> I did create some time ago a patch that allow to use the option -format 
> togheter with -ao pcm:nowaveheader.
> 
> The thread start here:
> http://lists.mplayerhq.hu/pipermail/mplayer-dev-eng/2006-August/045084.html
> 
> There was some discussion about the patch, but then it was totally forgotten.
> 
> I'm sending it again with the hope that this time it will be considered
> (it still apply against current svn).
> 
> Could you use my (simpler) patch for your purpose?
> 
> Ciao
> Giacomo

> diff -Nraub mplayer.ori/help/help_mp-en.h mplayer/help/help_mp-en.h
> --- mplayer.ori/help/help_mp-en.h	2006-08-07 10:13:55.000000000 -0400
> +++ mplayer/help/help_mp-en.h	2006-08-14 14:11:55.000000000 -0400
> @@ -1092,7 +1092,8 @@
>  // This one desn't even  have any mp_msg nor printf's?? [CHECK]
>  
>  // ao_pcm.c
> -#define MSGTR_AO_PCM_FileInfo "[AO PCM] File: %s (%s)\nPCM: Samplerate: %iHz Channels: %s Format %s\n"
> +#define MSGTR_AO_PCM_FileInfo "[AO PCM] File: %s (%s)\nPCM: Samplerate: %iHz Channels: %s Format: %s\n"

Cosmetics. ;)

Regards,
R.

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