From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Martijn Sipkema" Subject: Re: more sample formats? too little place left. Date: Fri, 31 May 2002 19:36:54 +0100 Sender: alsa-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Message-ID: <007e01c208d2$31938120$0400a8c0@martijn> References: Reply-To: "Martijn Sipkema" Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Errors-To: alsa-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: To: Takashi Iwai , alsa-devel@lists.sourceforge.net List-Id: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org > it seems that USB audio supports 24 bit sample in 3 bytes format. > and additionally i've found there are 20bit and 18bit sample formats. > the world is large... > > an arising problem is that the number of formats is limited to 32. > already 26 format types are used. the rest are only 6, and not enough > if we put BE/LE and signed/unsigned for new formats, too. > > how can we solve this? extend to 64bit? no, it has too overhead. > add a new field for special formats? > > perhaps we don't need all of them for such special formats. > there are no unsigned types for such formats. > but anyway the left resource is too small. are formats currently a bit in a 'supported formats' flag? --martijn _______________________________________________________________ Don't miss the 2002 Sprint PCS Application Developer's Conference August 25-28 in Las Vegas -- http://devcon.sprintpcs.com/adp/index.cfm