[FFmpeg-devel] patch for DCA "floating point output" option

[Ronald S. Bultje]

Hi,

On Jan 19, 2008 12:38 PM, Rich Felker <dalias at aerifal.cx> wrote:

> On Sat, Jan 19, 2008 at 11:44:04AM -0500, Ronald S. Bultje wrote:
> > On Jan 19, 2008 10:19 AM, madshi <dear at madshi.net> wrote:
> > > Besides, I don't think that the name is useless. Currently the
> decoders
> > > all output "short" samples (shorter than they should be). "non short"
> > > simply means that the decoders stop shorten the audio samples.
> >
> > So, video can "negotiate" an output (at least some decoders can), why
> can't
>
> No, video decoders just always output the native format. Applications
> using lavc must then convert if needed.


Sounds sane also. Let's do that for audio then (i.e. use enum SampleFormat
for real!).

Ronald