[FFmpeg-user] Tagging audio channels

[Tim Nicholson]

On 13/07/12 12:39, Carl Eugen Hoyos wrote:
> Tim Nicholson <nichot20 <at> yahoo.com> writes:
> 
>>> Do you have a sample that is tagged "L/R L/R for main 
>>> and alternative stereo"?
>>> I ask because I suspect this tagging is not supported by any 
>>> container supported by FFmpeg.
>>
>> Yes. Not uncommon in .mov to have L R L R.
> 
> Could you provide a sample?

http://www.datafilehost.com/download-cb948a88.html

Quicktime says its L/R L/R ffprobe FL/FR FL/FR. So I guess using FL/FR
would work if it translated back to L/R in quicktime land.

> I just looked in the caf specification and it seems to me 
> this is only possible with "channel description" and we do 
> not have many samples with a useful description.
> 
> Carl Eugen
> 
> [..]


-- 
Tim