[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] avcodec/aacdec: don't force HE-AACv2 profile if no PS info is present

[James Almer]

On 7/18/2022 10:57 AM, Andreas Rheinhardt wrote:
> James Almer:
>> On 7/14/2022 9:10 AM, Andreas Rheinhardt wrote:
>>> James Almer:
>>>> Should fix ticket #3361
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: James Almer <jamrial at gmail.com>
>>>> ---
>>>> This also needs an update to some fate ref samples i'll upload before
>>>> pushing
>>>> (fate-aac-al_sbr_ps_04_ur and fate-aac-al_sbr_ps_06_ur which are now
>>>> decoded
>>>> properly as he_aac mono, so the .s16 files need to be replaced).
>>>>
>>>
>>> We have both a fixed-point AAC as well as a floating point AAC decoder.
>>> Is there actually a test that tests that the output they produce is
>>> reasonably close? If not, could we make the test so that the same file
>>> is decoded once with the fixed-point and once with the floating-point
>>> decoder and then compared?
>>
>> That wouldn't help much, i think. Almost all changes to *_template.c
>> files are going to affect both decoders, so a breakage would not be
>> detected if you compare their output with each other as they would both
>> exhibit it.
>>
> 
> I actually thought that the aac_fixed tests used checksums instead of
> ref files; then changes and breakages would be visible by changes to
> these files. Apparently I was wrong about that and the ref files are
> used for both aac and aac_fixed. But a test like the one outlined above
> would nevertheless obviate the need for a new ref file.

Judging by 
https://git.videolan.org/?p=ffmpeg.git;a=blob;f=tests/fate/aac.mak;h=1743428f544fad8946dba11dd4ecec0630eb70a6;hb=HEAD#l117 
it seems at least for these samples the fixed decoder does not generate 
a decoded stream comparable to the float one, so I'll just upload a new 
raw pcm file.