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Validated News / Re: FFmpeg 7.0 "Dijkstra" released 2024-04-05
Last post by Porcus -Extra wheels available.
Its mostly now low-effort, by state sponsored maintenance work over auto-detected issues in source code - of questionable outcomes and benefit.That's an extraordinary claim needing specific examples.
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net results is still negative.
Are you trying to say that it's better to leave the auto-detected issues unsolved? Even those potentially exploitable? Which is what fuzzing/static analysis tools are mostly trying to find.
[...]And yet, of the 1775 patches that went into ffmpeg, you used 1376 in librempeg, if my counts are correct. That doesn't seem like "mostly fixes of questionable outcomes and benefits" nor "some cool and nice stuff but net result negative" to me.
Its mostly now low-effort, by state sponsored maintenance work over auto-detected issues in source code - of questionable outcomes and benefit.
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There is some cool and nice stuff, like cleanups and refactoring but net results is still negative.
Note that exclusive mode is exclusive, it allocates the output device for foobar2000 and nothing else can play audio during that time. And it will error out if you try to play material your audio device doesn't support. Using shared mode output is more user friendly.Case I have nothing but respect for you but IMO you're not giving the advantages of using exclusive mode due there. For bit-perfect purists it provides an untouched path from file to audio device, instead of allowing Windows Mixer to introduce its own sample rate manipulations and DSP-related compromises. The user may be interested more in a pure music experience than sharing the environment with Windows system sounds, app audio alerts, special effects, etc. And inserting the SoX in a DSP chain set to only activate the few times a sampling rate is encountered NOT supported by the device is a simple, invisible way around that limitation. I KNOW you realize all of that, but the OP's volume issues just with Foobar (he doesn't even indicate what version he is using) are probably more a result of things like gain settings and tags and overlooked DSPs. I had to lookup "MultiResampler" to find out where that one came from (2015-2017).
.....without having to resort to using exclusive mode.