It currently does the following:
1) get a zeroed audio buffer
2) copy some properties (but not the data) of the input buffer to it
3) pass this buffer to the output filter
This looks useless and is indeed not used by any filters, therefore
delete it.
Make ff_null_filter_samples() (just pass the buffer to the next filter)
the new default.
Those functions are only useful inside filters. It is better to not
support user filters until the API is more stable.
This breaks audio filtering API and ABI in theory, but since it's
unusable right now this shouldn't be a problem.
Anton Khirnov