[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH 1/2] avformat/mxf: support MCA audio information

[Marton Balint]

On Wed, 22 Dec 2021, Pierre-Anthony Lemieux wrote:

> On Wed, Dec 22, 2021 at 4:38 AM Tomas Härdin <tjoppen at acc.umu.se> wrote:
>>
>> tis 2021-12-21 klockan 21:24 +0100 skrev Marton Balint:
>> >
>> >
>> > It is not matter of performance, we should not introduce a hack such
>> > as
>> > reordering PCM channels in a demuxer if there is a better solution on
>> > the
>> > horizon.
>
> Yes, it feels like channel reordering should be a framework-level
> feature and not a per-demuxer feature.
>
> What about a roadmap where the channel-reordering-in-MXF patch is
> scheduled to be merged after some reasonable time (1 month?) if the
> channel API has not landed by then? This would allow contributors and
> users to plan ahead.

I am not sure, if 1 month is enough for things to settle.

Anyway, I have sent a patch which has MCA info but without reordering. We 
could merge that now, and later, when the API is in place, add support for 
non-native channel ordering.

Regards,
Marton