[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH 001/244] Add a new channel layout API

[Anton Khirnov]

Quoting Nicolas George (2020-01-14 17:07:56)
> Anton Khirnov (12020-01-14):
> > No. If you want to mix multiple streams, then your mixing filter should
> > support multiple streams. It is certainly in no way "natural" or correct
> > to invent a scheme for stream multiplexing through channel layouts.
> 
> You could argue that if the channel layout API was done and the filter
> was in the process of being written. But it is the other way around: the
> filter exists, it has needs, the new API must adapt.

That makes no sense. The filter cannot "have needs" when the current API
does not support the use case you have in mind (which is good). The
filter can either be modified to allow multiple inputs or a new filter
can be added.

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Anton Khirnov