[MPlayer-dev-eng] ANNOUNCE: new audio filter layer in use

[D Richard Felker III]

On Wed, Oct 09, 2002 at 09:14:01AM +0800, Anders Johansson wrote:
> 
> > > Also I have found a problem with how the af_stream is allocated: The
> > > stream should be allocated per session not per file. If not the
> > why???
> 
> If some other art of mplayer/mencoder has added or gotten the address
> to a filter during playback of one movie, that pointer will be invalid
> when the next movie starts playing. Another problem is that
> dynamically added or removed filters will be gone. All this will cause
> problems in the interface to the filter layer. It can be worked around
> but the fix will be quite ugly.

This is the way it's supposed to work, just like video filters. If you
want dynamic added filters to be persistent across movies, remember
which ones were added and re-add them for the next movie. But trying
to keep the same filter chain makes no sense.

Rich