Hello everyone :)

I was wondering about the behavior of FFmpeg's hashing muxer for audio streams:

For example:
With a 32bit float (f32le) source, FFmpeg seems to be able to generate a hash for the f32le source - but only if I explicitly know (and then tell) FFmpeg to do so.
By default, I get the hash of a pcm_s16le version (see examples below).

I remember it defaults to "pcm_s16le" (also mentioned in https://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/framemd5%20Intro%20and%20HowTo), but why is that so?

And would it be possible to generate the hash of the source audio, without having to know what raw/uncompressed type it is? I would like to be able to use the hash to compare lossless conversion of the content between different audio formats (eg vs FLAC and PCM).



Thank you very much in advance :)
Peter B.


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Example:

# pcm_f32le defaults to pcm_s16le hash:
$ ffmpeg-git -loglevel quiet -i drums3.wav -f streamhash -hash md5 -
0,a,MD5=08170d6e02fbccc07b61fbf1d7476057

# ...as shown here:
$ ffmpeg-git -loglevel quiet -i drums3.wav -c:a pcm_s16le -f streamhash -hash md5 -
0,a,MD5=08170d6e02fbccc07b61fbf1d7476057

#
$ ffmpeg-git -loglevel quiet -i drums3.wav -c:a pcm_f32le -f streamhash -hash md5 -
0,a,MD5=1444cdc20cb8ea30874114cb53729797

$ ffmpeg-git -loglevel quiet -i drums3.wav -c:a copy -f streamhash -hash md5 -
0,a,MD5=1444cdc20cb8ea30874114cb53729797



$ ffmpeg-git -i drums3.wav -hash md5 -

ffmpeg version N-109029-g1800a0da09 Copyright (c) 2000-2022 the FFmpeg developers
  built with gcc 9 (Ubuntu 9.4.0-1ubuntu1~20.04.1)
  configuration: --prefix=/usr/local --enable-gpl --enable-nonfree --enable-version3 --enable-postproc --enable-ffplay --enable-swscale --enable-avfilter --enable-pthreads --enable-bzlib --enable-zlib --enable-decoder=png --enable-encoder=png --enable-openssl --samples=../fate-suite --enable-libfreetype --enable-libopenjpeg --disable-decoder=jpeg2000 --enable-libvpx --enable-libvorbis --enable-libx264 --enable-libx265
  libavutil      57. 42.100 / 57. 42.100
  libavcodec     59. 52.100 / 59. 52.100
  libavformat    59. 34.101 / 59. 34.101
  libavdevice    59.  8.101 / 59.  8.101
  libavfilter     8. 50.100 /  8. 50.100
  libswscale      6.  8.112 /  6.  8.112
  libswresample   4.  9.100 /  4.  9.100
  libpostproc    56.  7.100 / 56.  7.100
Guessed Channel Layout for Input Stream #0.0 : mono
Input #0, wav, from 'drums3.wav':
  Duration: 00:00:54.25, bitrate: 1536 kb/s
  Stream #0:0: Audio: pcm_f32le ([3][0][0][0] / 0x0003), 48000 Hz, 1 channels, flt, 1536 kb/s




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