[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH 3/3] lavd/alsa_audio_enc: implementation of query_codec

[Reimar Döffinger]

On Sat, Nov 02, 2013 at 12:00:02PM +0100, Nicolas George wrote:
> Le duodi 12 brumaire, an CCXXII, Reimar Döffinger a écrit :
> > I'm not sure what the point of it is.
> > It doesn't cover all possibilities (e.g. AC3, DTS etc. in SPDIF is often
> > supported), while it also contains formats that are
> > almost never supported (especially the reverse endianness
> > formats, but most of the time only AV_CODEC_ID_PCM_S16LE
> > actually works).
> 
> They are the formats supported by the wrapper code, i.e. the ffmpeg CodecID
> values that are mapped to an ALSA format enum value.

Which still means it's completely useless to have it as a function,
it could just be a list like we have for other formats...

> Inside ALSA, it is likely that all formats are supported because the devices
> usually contain a "plug" plugin that converts from any format.

Surprisingly many setups actually don't, in particularly for old
setups from the times where the "plug" plugin was the "break my
sound" plugin.