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

[Paul B Mahol]

On 2/1/20, Derek Buitenhuis <derek.buitenhuis at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

This does not have much logic or valid reasoning.

>
> - Derek
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