[Libav-user] Converting audio sample buffer format

[Carl Eugen Hoyos]

René J.V. Bertin <rjvbertin at ...> writes:

> > http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=11203
> 
> Who cares, as long as they don't release versions 
> that fail on too many kinds of code?

What about the ~50 (?) releases since this report was opened?

[...]

> BTW, is there some documentation on ffmpeg.org on how to 
> create patches after having hacked around in the
> source tree?

http://ffmpeg.org/developer.html

> And a related question: what's a good way to perform 
> real-world benchmarks on the libraries?

Apart from time there are START_TIMER and STOP_TIMER 
macros in libavutil.

> Can ffmpeg be compiled so that it collects performance 
> statistics on specific operations?

Definitely.

> Because I presume no one will be interested in patches 
> that give a performance gain that's significant 
> (reproducible) but completely irrelevant on the overall 
> timescale of operations...

This is simply plain wrong.

Carl Eugen