Return a channel layout and the number of channels based on the specified name.
This function is similar to av_get_channel_layout(), but can also parse unknown
channel layout specifications.
Unknown channel layout specifications are a decimal number and a capital 'C'
suffix, in order to not break compatibility with the lowercase 'c' suffix,
which is used for a guessed channel layout with the specified number of
channels.
Signed-off-by: Marton Balint <cus@passwd.hu>
* commit '5c437fb':
lavu: Add values for various Dolby flags to the AVMatrixEncoding enum.
Conflicts:
doc/APIchanges
libavutil/version.h
Merged-by: Michael Niedermayer <michaelni@gmx.at>
The new syntax is preferred since it allows backward syntax compatibility
with libswr when switching to the new option handling code with
AV_OPT_TYPE_CHANNEL_LAYOUT.
With the new parser the string:
1234
is interpreted as a channel layout mask, rather than as a number of
channels, and thus it's compatible with the current way to set a channel
layout as an integer (e.g. for the icl and ocl options) making use of
integer option values.
ff_get_channel_layout() with compat=0 will be used in the
AV_OPT_TYPE_CHANNEL handler code.
The user is encouraged to switch to the new forward compatible syntax,
which requires to put a trailing "c" when specifying a layout as a number
of channels.
