[Libav-user] avcodec_decode_audio4() help

[Paul B Mahol]

On 5/6/13, Gonzalo Garramuno <ggarra13 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I placed a print statement with:
>>
>> const char *av_get_sample_fmt_name(enum AVSampleFormat sample_fmt);
>>
>> and the return value for 1.0.6 is s16, while for 1.1.4 is fltp, which
>> I assume is float planar.
>>
>> Does this mean I need to use the swresample library to resample the
>> sound to s16 which the audio card can play?
>>
> When I run the video under ffmpeg I got:
>
>     Stream #0:1(eng): Audio: aac (mp4a / 0x6134706D), 48000 Hz, stereo,
> s16, 159 kb/s
>
> Stereo, s16.  Why am I getting float data in the newer ffmpegs?

Because that is native to what decoder decodes, use swresample if you need s16.