[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] avformat/aea: Add aea muxer

[asivery]

Thank you Stefano Sabatini and Andreas Rheinhardt - you guys have the patience of saints.

On Tuesday, March 12th, 2024 at 11:27 AM, Stefano Sabatini <stefasab at gmail.com> wrote:

> On date Sunday 2024-03-10 16:10:15 +0100, Stefano Sabatini wrote:
> 
> > On date Sunday 2024-03-10 14:20:12 +0000, ffmpeg-devel Mailing List wrote:
> > 
> > > Great, thank you very much!
> > > I'm attaching the (hopefully) final version of the patch.
> > 
> > > MD studio was a piece of software created by a company called "EDL",
> > > which in combination with alternative firmware for the Sony MDH-10
> > > MiniDisc recorder
> > > (https://www.minidisc.wiki/equipment/sony/misc/mdh-10) let people
> > > download raw ATRAC1 audio from their MiniDiscs onto computers, and
> > > (probably) put this audio back on their discs later. Nowadays it's
> > > used by software like Web Minidisc Pro (which I maintain) to store
> > > ATRAC1 audio, as it (until recently) was the only way to store
> > > ATRAC1 so that it would be picked up by VLC. Now we have matroska
> > > support for ATRAC1, but I wanted to write a muxer for AEA before I
> > > phase it out from new pieces of software, so that the people who
> > > would like to use AEA instead of matroska have a way to go back to
> > > it.
> > 
> > Thanks, probably part of this information could go to the doc to
> > provide some context (can be done as a separate patch), as this kind
> > of info is very difficult to retrieve otherwise (and one of the goals
> > of FFmpeg is digital preservation).
> > 
> > > From e67d2df52c65528fbbfe8d5268661c88a7ad225e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> > > From: asivery asivery at protonmail.com
> > > Date: Fri, 8 Mar 2024 14:45:02 +0100
> > > Subject: [PATCH] avformat/aea: Add aea muxer
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: asivery asivery at protonmail.com
> > > ---
> > > Changelog | 1 +
> > > doc/muxers.texi | 10 +++
> > > libavformat/Makefile | 3 +-
> > > libavformat/{aea.c => aeadec.c} | 0
> > > libavformat/aeaenc.c | 115 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> > > libavformat/allformats.c | 1 +
> > > 6 files changed, 129 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > > rename libavformat/{aea.c => aeadec.c} (100%)
> > > create mode 100644 libavformat/aeaenc.c
> > 
> > Patch looks good to me, waiting for more feedback by Andreas.
> 
> 
> Will apply it soon, thanks.