[Libav-user] How to specify the audio sample format when opening a file

[Carl Eugen Hoyos]

黄轩宇 <xuanyu.huang at ...> writes:

> Our application, when used with old version to 
> open a MP4 file with AAC encoded audio, the populated 
> pAudioCodecCtx->sample_fmt == AV_SAMPLE_FMT_FLP, but 
> when used with latest FFMPEG version, this value 
> changed to AV_SAMPLE_FMT_FLTP. 
> 
> I found a member AVCodecContext::request_sample_fmt 
> which is said can be set by user.

This is not a solution because most decoders 
only support one sample_fmt.

Use the aconvert filter to convert between 
sample formats.

Carl Eugen