[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] liba52 float support

[D Richard Felker III]

On Sat, Feb 19, 2005 at 07:27:18PM -0600, Zoltan Hidvegi wrote:
> The attached patch adds an new option -a52float which enables
> ad_liba52 to output 32-bit float samples.  This is nost useful when
> you use the volume filter to increase the volume level, as it avoids
> some loss of precision.
> 
> Rich said that float support in libaf is broken, but it worked for me,
> I'm not sure what's broken.  Maybe it's broken on big-endian?  Could
> someone test that?

I use little-endian.

> And if float is not broken, should a52float be the default?  There is
> almost no speed penalty, as float is the native format of liba52
> anyways.

It definitely IS broken. Before you make it default you need to fix
libaf float support so it works...

Rich