Add request_channels member to AVCodecContext so we now have a proper

way to tell the decoder how many output channels we would like.

Originally committed as revision 10199 to svn://svn.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg/trunk

libavcodec/utils.c

@@ -753,6 +753,7 @@ static const AVOption options[]={
 {"timecode_frame_start", "GOP timecode frame start number, in non drop frame format", OFFSET(timecode_frame_start), FF_OPT_TYPE_INT, 0, 0, INT_MAX, V|E},
 {"drop_frame_timecode", NULL, 0, FF_OPT_TYPE_CONST, CODEC_FLAG2_DROP_FRAME_TIMECODE, INT_MIN, INT_MAX, V|E, "flags2"},
 {"non_linear_q", "use non linear quantizer", 0, FF_OPT_TYPE_CONST, CODEC_FLAG2_NON_LINEAR_QUANT, INT_MIN, INT_MAX, V|E, "flags2"},
+{"request_channels", "set desired number of audio channels", OFFSET(request_channels), FF_OPT_TYPE_INT, DEFAULT, 0, INT_MAX, A|D},
 {NULL},
 };