On Thu, Apr 06, 2017 at 09:49:21AM +0100, John Warburton wrote:
> Dear All,
>
> While needing automatically to mix several hundred audio files, I
> noticed that the libavfilter module af_amix.c (audio filter 'amix') is
> hard-coded to limit inputs to 32. Of course, I believe this to be
> sensible as no doubt you do, too.
>
> However, because the code appears to be written robustly, it was
> trivial to increase the limit to 1024 and, on a fast machine with SATA
> drives, I have used FFmpeg to mix simultaneously over 400 16-bit
> stereo wav files (48kHz sample rate) at approximately 2 x realtime. It
> starts very slowly, but speed soon builds up.
>
> Naturally, memory use increased. But the job was done. It's generating
> files for a sound installation in an art exhibition in Brighton, UK,
> where many hundreds of migrant birds' songs must be heard together
> ("SWAY" at the ONCA Gallery).
>
> Below is the very trivial patch in case the result of this experiment
> is of interest.
>
> Thank you for all the work you do to make FFmpeg so incredibly useful.
> J
>
> --- libavfilter/af_amix.c.orig 2017-04-05 22:26:26.326379600 +0100
> +++ libavfilter/af_amix.c 2017-04-05 18:00:59.291196000 +0100
> @@ -177,7 +177,7 @@
> #define F AV_OPT_FLAG_FILTERING_PARAM
> static const AVOption amix_options[] = {
> { "inputs", "Number of inputs.",
> - OFFSET(nb_inputs), AV_OPT_TYPE_INT, { .i64 = 2 }, 1, 32, A|F },
> + OFFSET(nb_inputs), AV_OPT_TYPE_INT, { .i64 = 2 }, 1, 1024, A|F },
> { "duration", "How to determine the end-of-stream.",
> OFFSET(duration_mode), AV_OPT_TYPE_INT, { .i64 =
> DURATION_LONGEST }, 0, 2, A|F, "duration" },
> { "longest", "Duration of longest input.", 0,
> AV_OPT_TYPE_CONST, { .i64 = DURATION_LONGEST }, INT_MIN, INT_MAX,
> A|F, "duration" },
> this patch is corrupted by linebreaks [...] -- Michael GnuPG fingerprint: 9FF2128B147EF6730BADF133611EC787040B0FAB Complexity theory is the science of finding the exact solution to an approximation. Benchmarking OTOH is finding an approximation of the exact
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