[FFmpeg-devel] Codec IDs for AC3/DTS variants (Was: Re: [RFC] additinaldesc_type for dtshd mpeg-ts demuxer)

[elupus]

Ian Caulfield <ian.caulfield <at> gmail.com> writes:

> 
> 2008/6/9 elupus <elupus <at> ecce.se>:
> 
> >
> > Hmm. AC3_TRUE_HD should probably chenge. It's not the same thing as AC3, 
its
> > more like MLP from DVDAudio standards.
> 
> This case is actually both a MLP PES stream and an AC3 PES stream
> (with different PES ids) carried on the same PID. These should
> probably be split into two streams by the demuxer (which has access to
> the PES headers)
> 

Probably true, but the MLP stuff will be ignored by a AC3 decoder syncing to 
the syncwords of ac3. But yea, splitting that could be a nice idea.