This includes the case when lavc decodes audio with more than 8
channels, which our audio chain currently does not support.
the changes in ad_lavc.c are just simplifications. The code tried to
avoid overriding global parameters if it found something invalid, but
that is not needed anymore.
libav* is generally freaking horrible, and might do bad things if the
data pointer passed to it are not aligned. One way to be sure that the
alignment is correct is allocating all pointers using av_malloc().
It's possible that this is not needed at all, though. For now it might
be better to keep this, since the mp_audio code is intended to replace
another buffer in dec_audio.c, which is currently av_malloc() allocated.
The original reason why this uses av_malloc() is apparently because
libavcodec used to directly encode into mplayer buffers, which is not
the case anymore, and thus (probably) doesn't make sense anymore.
(The commit subject uses the word "cargo cult", after all.)
Based on earlier work by Stefano Pigozzi.
There are 2 changes:
1. Instead of mp_audio.audio, mp_audio.planes[0] must be used.
2. mp_audio.len used to contain the size of the audio in bytes. Now
mp_audio.samples must be used. (Where 1 sample is the smallest unit
of audio that covers all channels.)
Also, some filters need changes to reject non-interleaved formats
properly.
Nothing uses the non-interleaved features yet, but this is needed so
that things don't just break when doing so.
mp_audio has some redundant fields. Setters like mp_audio_set_format()
initialize these properly.
Also move the mp_audio struct to a the file audio.c.
We can remove a mysterious line of code from af.c:
in.format |= af_bits2fmt(in.bps * 8);
I'm not sure if this was ever actually needed, or if it was some kind of
"make it work" quick-fix that works against the way things were supposed
to work. All filters etc. now set the format correctly, so if there ever
was a need for this code, it's definitely gone.
