On 14.11.2016 22:59, Carl Eugen Hoyos wrote: > 2016-11-14 21:55 GMT+01:00 Andreas Cadhalpun > <andreas.cadhal...@googlemail.com>: > >>> channels being zero is perfectly valid, it means the caller does not >>> know the channel count and expects the decoder to read it from the >>> bitstream. >> >> In general code this is correct, however if e.g. the matroska demuxer >> reads an audio stream which claims to have 0 channels, it should >> be rejected as broken. > > I don't know the exact "broken" case you are referring to but > generally, FFmpeg should not reject files because a field in > their header is set incorrectly, especially if such "broken" > files were played in the past.
Well, if the field should contain the number of channels but doesn't, the sample is not correct. Anyway, zero channels is borderline, but what about a negative number of channels? Best regards, Andreas _______________________________________________ ffmpeg-devel mailing list ffmpeg-devel@ffmpeg.org http://ffmpeg.org/mailman/listinfo/ffmpeg-devel
