On 06/05/2011 05:00 PM, Stefano Sabatini wrote:

> On date Sunday 2011-06-05 22:28:22 +0200, Stefano Sabatini encoded:
>> On date Sunday 2011-03-13 17:27:24 -0400, Justin Ruggles wrote:
>>> On 03/13/2011 05:24 PM, Alex Converse wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Sun, Mar 13, 2011 at 2:20 PM, Justin Ruggles
>>>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>> On 03/13/2011 04:59 PM, Stefano Sabatini wrote:
>> [...]
>>>>>> The second one, av_get_bits_per_sample_fmt(), is misnamed (should be
>>>>>> av_get_bits_per_sample()), so we may change the name to
>>>>>> av_get_bits_per_sample2() for avoiding the conflict with the name
>>>>>> already taken.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> I agree.  But as long as we're reworking it, why not
>>>>> av_get_bytes_per_sample() so it doesn't have to be divided by 8 
>>>>> everywhere?
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Don't some ADPCM codecs have less than 8 bits per sample.
>>
> 
>> First variant attached, if we have no reasons to in the future we
>> won't add some sample format with a non integer number of bytes then
>> I'll post the av_get_bytes_per_sample() variant.
> 
> In case the sense of the text above was not clear, I meant: do you
> have some reason to suppose that we may add a sample format with a non
> integer number of bytes?

no.

> If this is not the case, I suppose it is safe to just use
> av_get_bytes_per_sample().


I think it should be av_get_sample_fmt_bytes() to match the other
functions. av_get_bits_per_sample() is something completely different
having to do with the codec, unrelated to the sample format.  It's
mostly just a convenience function for libavformat.

-Justin
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