[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH 001/279] Add a new channel layout API

[Anton Khirnov]

Quoting Lynne (2021-12-08 13:53:52)
> That's not a goal, it's anti-goal, and a cause for hysterical raisin
> picking in the future.
> Having an instantly debuggable structure rather than one that

Instantly debuggable structure?

Again: very very little code needs to store actual AVChannels. In the
submitted tree this is just af_join. So the gain from adding an offset
would simplify very little code, while complicating all the callers
dealing with masks, of which there are quite many.

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Anton Khirnov