[MPlayer-advusers] Re: FAAD problem on AMD64: no sound

[Diego Biurrun]

On Sun, Apr 03, 2005 at 02:40:30PM +0200, Daniel Hottinger wrote:
> 
> * On the 91th day of the year MMV a.d., Diego Biurrun wrote:
> > 
> > Could you please retry with latest CVS?  Rich did some fixes to
> > downmixing.
> 
> I tried the latest CVS (2005-04-03, ~12:00) but unfortunately the
> problem is still there. The internal libfaad is silent for the 2
> and 6 channel files. The external libfaad plays at least the 2
> channel file correct, but for the 6 channel file libfaad decodes
> 8 channels.
> 
> The good news is that I've just figured out that the hack in the
> external libfaad:
> 
> |    if (hDecoder->fr_channels == 6)
> |        break;
> (libfaad/syntax.c)
> 
> from a previous mail actually solved the problem completely! With
> external libfaad and -channels 6 I get 3 different stereo streams
> (front, rear, center/lfe). I must have been too tired that
> evening to play with -channels and swap the surround slot...

Could you make a patch out of this?  If it fixes AMD64 while not
breaking i386 and PPC I will most likely apply it.

> -- 
> I was trained in the culture of mathematics, so I'm not used to charging 
> people a penny every time they use a theorem I proved. But I charge somebody 
> for the time I spend telling them which theorem to apply.  -- D.E. Knuth

Nice quote, BTW.

Diego