[vlc-devel] FIXED!!! Re: mp3 transcoding creates slow audio (was Re: Slow audio when streaming flv

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

Le mardi 8 juillet 2008 21:28:03 Dave Still, vous avez écrit :
> > With the following patch, transcode keeps the pitch when
> > resampling to an mp3.  I had to specify acodec=mpga to find
> > an encoder.
>
> This fixed it!  Thank you!  I had to modify your patch slightly to
> include mp3, but now mp3 transcoding pitch is working!  For some
> reason I couldn't get this to work back in April when funman suggested
> the same fix, so thank you!  I've attached the updated patch that
> works with acodec=mp3.

And that's what looks very wrong with this patch, to me as a transcode 
non-expert. In the past, codec-specific transcoding hacks have already proven 
harmful.

Can anybody explain why MPEG Audio would need special handling here??

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