[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH 4/5] aptx: implement the aptX HD bluetooth codec

[Hendrik Leppkes]

On Tue, Jan 9, 2018 at 5:07 AM, Rostislav Pehlivanov
<atomnuker at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Anyway, all this discussion is moot as Hendrik pointed out that profile
>> can't be set outside of lavc to determine a decoder behavior.
>>
>
> What, based on a comment in lavc? Comments there describe the api but they
> rarely define it. We're free to adjust them if need be and in this case,
> since the codec profile may not be set, the API user is forced to deal with
> the lack of such set. Hence, we can clarify that it may be set by lavf as
> well as lavc as well as not being set at all. And the decoder may use it.
> I maintain that adding a new codec ID for this is unacceptable.
>

We already have established methods to select codec sub-variants, we
don't need to invent a new one just because you feel like it.

- Hendrik