[vlc-devel] [RFC] DTS-HD and audio_format_t

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

Please use es_format_t.i_profile.

On Fri, 4 Nov 2016, at 17:46, Thomas Guillem wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> In order to play DTS-HD samples via HDMI I need a way to differentiate
> DTS from DTS-HD. Theoretically, they should use the same fourcc, since
> DTS-HD is just an extension of the DTS codec (we can play a DTS-HD
> sample as DTS if we skip the substream, and use only the core).
> 
> But some aout like wasapi or audiotrack need to know if the format is
> DTS or DTS-HD. For example, in wasapi, if the
> KSDATAFORMAT_SUBTYPE_IEC61937_DTS_HD format initialization fails, we can
> fallback to KSDATAFORMAT_SUBTYPE_IEC61937_DTS and modify to
> audio_format_t to tell the spdif converter that we only want to send the
> DTS CORE.
> 
> So my question is: how to differentiate DTS from DTS-HD in
> audio_format_t.
> 
>  - Add a DTSHD fourcc: VLC_FOURCC('d','t','s','h'). This is kind of
>  wrong since this should be the same codec but then we don't need to
>  modify audio_format_t.
> 
>  - Add a new int i_profile in audio_format_t ? This is the correct way
>  but this will be used only for this codec.
> 
> Best regards,
> Thomas Guillem
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