[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] aacdec: add support for dual mono in Japanese DTV

Michael Niedermayer michaelni at gmx.at
Fri Aug 24 04:26:49 CEST 2012


On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 10:57:03AM +0900, Akihiro TSUKADA wrote:
> > so there is no way to distinguish dual mono from stereo and the user
> > has to set this for each program she wants to watch manually ?
> 
> There is, at the level of MPEG TS system.
> Each audio PES is tagged by PMT and
> EIT describes the mapping from tag to encoding parameters
> including channel configuration.
> So those parameters are defined per program/show and
> can change over time. (PMT is usually fixed and does not change).
> TV receivers track EIT of the current station (TS, programID) and
> output either channel (defaulting to the left) or
> switch among them on user's request.

Is this information available to the TS demuxer ? If so it could
maybe be passed to the decoder via side data on AVPackets, this would
avoid the need to manually set it

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Many things microsoft did are stupid, but not doing something just because
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would be bankrupt already.
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