Bug#788609: libavutils: Please add channel support to AVFrame

[Petter Reinholdtsen]

Package: libavutil-dev
Version: 6:11.3-1
File: /usr/include/libavutil/frame.h
Severity: wishlist

Hi.

I am working on getting the bs1770gain program into Debian, and in the
process I discovered an incompatibility between libavutil-dev and
libavutil-ffmpeg-dev.  The latter provide information about the auto
channels in an audio file, using AVFrame struct member channel_layout
and channels.  These make it possible to handle surround audio.

There are also the new functions av_frame_set_channel_layout()
av_frame_get_channel_layout() av_frame_set_channels() and
av_frame_get_channels() needed for this.

Please consider porting this new API to libav from the ffmpeg library.

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Happy hacking
Petter Reinholdtsen