[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] lavc/ac3dec: disable DRC by default

[Derek Buitenhuis]

On 01/02/2020 19:34, rcombs wrote:
> This issue has been argued before, with the status quo being preserved under
> the logic that the spec says this parameter is supposed to default to 1,
> and that we should follow the spec. The spec was misguided, and thus so was
> blindly following it.

If "I don't agree with the spec" or "this spec does something stupid" were valid
arguments, we may as well not have specs at all, and FFmpeg would have a lot more
garbage in it. You can write at length why you think it's bad, but that does not
negeate the fact that it's the spec, and the defacto way to handle decoding AC-3.

And I'd rather not give Dolby more ammunition for their anti-FOSS FUD campaign.

For whatever my opinion is worth nowadays on this list, it's a very, very hard
NAK from me.

- Derek