[MPlayer-dev-eng] channel order (was: [ffdts] multichannel decode [patch])

[D Richard Felker III]

On Sun, Oct 17, 2004 at 09:02:07PM +0200, Florian Dietrich wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>  --- D Richard Felker III <dalias at aerifal.cx> wrote: 
> 
> > this is definitely wrong. right now audio filters suck, but suppose
> > you're filtering the audio and a filter needs to know which channel
> > is which? it's totally broken for them to change between platforms.
> > the only sane way to reorder is at the ao end.
> 
> True. Like I said, I don't know much about the inner workings of
> mplayer. I guess we'll just let ao_dshow do the reordering then for
> now, and hope the channels always come to us in the same order :-)
> 
> It might be a good idea to keep this problem in mind though, just in
> case the af/ao layer gets a re-design in the future.

with a redesign both interleaved- and separated-channels audio will be
supported, and separate will be the native format whenever possible.
interleaved audio samples suck just as much as packed video formats
when it comes to processing them...

rich