This list is mainly useful to be directly used as a parameter by the
audio sink buffer, when there is no need to force a specific channel
layout.
The list of formats is generated programmatically, and avoids channel
layouts not supported by libavfilter (with more than 8 channels).
We preferred to avoid compile-time generation in order to avoid some
unnecessary complexity (build hacks, generating code maintainance
etc.).
A more compact way to express this list through the use of macros
should be possible when libavfilter will support more than 8 channels,
as there will be no need to filter out channel layouts with more than
8 channels.
See thread:
Subject: [FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] lavfi: add ff_all_channel_layouts internal symbol
Date: Sat, 20 Aug 2011 15:33:16 +0200
Stefano Sabatini