[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] ff_put_wav_header: add flag to force WAVEFORMATEX

Michael Niedermayer michaelni at gmx.at
Mon Apr 28 20:15:18 CEST 2014


On Sun, Apr 27, 2014 at 11:49:15PM -0700, Daniel Verkamp wrote:
> Partially undoes commit 2c4e08d89327595f7f4be57dda4b3775e1198d5e:
> 
>     riff: always generate a proper WAVEFORMATEX structure in
>     ff_put_wav_header
> 
> A new flag, FF_PUT_WAV_HEADER_FORCE_WAVEFORMATEX, is added to force the
> use of WAVEFORMATEX rather than PCMWAVEFORMAT even for PCM codecs.
> 
> This flag is used in the Matroska muxer (the cause of the original
> change) and in the ASF muxer, because the specifications for
> these formats indicate explicitly that WAVEFORMATEX should be used.
> 
> Muxers for other formats will return to the original behavior of writing
> PCMWAVEFORMAT when writing a header for raw PCM.
> 
> In particular, this causes raw PCM in WAV to generate the canonical
> 44-byte header expected by some tools.
> ---
>  libavformat/asfenc.c      |  2 +-
>  libavformat/avienc.c      |  2 +-
>  libavformat/matroskaenc.c |  2 +-
>  libavformat/movenc.c      |  4 ++--
>  libavformat/riff.h        | 16 +++++++++++++++-
>  libavformat/riffenc.c     |  6 ++++--
>  libavformat/wavenc.c      |  4 ++--
>  libavformat/wtvenc.c      |  2 +-
>  8 files changed, 27 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)

this changes several fate checksums
assuming they are all intended to change, please include the checksum
update in the patch

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