[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] add (e)ac3float decoders

[Ivan Kalvachev]

On 3/10/11, madshi <madshi at gmail.com> wrote:
> How about Justin's suggestion to add a "request_sample_fmt"
> field then? An option to get floating point output is better
> than not having any way to get floating point at all.
>
> Best regards, Mathias.

The problem with the single field is that the application doesn't know
what formats are supported by the decoder in advance. It needs a list
of them. Like the one from get_format().

Well, I guess you can try to reinvent the wheel in the hard and bumpy way.