On Mon, Aug 3, 2020 at 9:34 AM Carl Eugen Hoyos <ceffm...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > Am 02.08.2020 um 23:16 schrieb Jan Ekström <jee...@gmail.com>: > > > >> On Sat, Aug 1, 2020 at 4:29 PM Carl Eugen Hoyos <ceffm...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> > >>> Am Sa., 1. Aug. 2020 um 14:47 Uhr schrieb Jan Ekström <jee...@gmail.com>: > >>> > >>>> On Sat, Aug 1, 2020 at 3:08 PM Carl Eugen Hoyos <ceffm...@gmail.com> > >>>> wrote: > >>>> > >>>>> Am Sa., 1. Aug. 2020 um 14:06 Uhr schrieb Jan Ekström > >>>>> <jee...@gmail.com>: > >>>>> > >>>>> Additionally, the spec only mentions stereo/5.1 for direct mapping, so > >>>>> I've kept to 5.1 since we have the capability for that one. > >>>> > >>>> And you still believe it would be a disadvantage if the decoder outputs > >>>> this 5.1 mapping by default if nothing else was requested? > >>> > >>> Yes. API users so far have received the audio frames according to > >>> encoded layout by default, so doing something else breaks that rule of > >>> least surprises. > >>> > >>>> Is there an option to request the 5.1 mapping? > >>> > >>> As noted in the 0/0 cover letter, you can do it just fine with > >>> `-channel_layout "5.1"` with ffmpeg.c. I have verified that it returns > >>> the 5.1 channels as-is. > >> > >> But this does not make the decoder output 5.1 or does it? > >> > >> While I should probably only care about ffmpeg and ignore > >> the library users I still wonder who can live with your approach... > >> > > > > As this can be implied to be a comment regarding me not caring about > > the API users, > > It was a comment about me not understanding how the average of hundreds of > library users will be able to use this - important - new feature. >
They can use it like they use any other uncommon channel layout, by using lavfi or swresample directly to remix the audio - the same process that ffmpeg.c uses internally. - Hendrik _______________________________________________ ffmpeg-devel mailing list ffmpeg-devel@ffmpeg.org https://ffmpeg.org/mailman/listinfo/ffmpeg-devel To unsubscribe, visit link above, or email ffmpeg-devel-requ...@ffmpeg.org with subject "unsubscribe".
