From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Ville_Syrj=E4l=E4?= Subject: Re: more sample formats? too little place left. Date: Sun, 2 Jun 2002 03:22:00 +0300 Sender: alsa-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Message-ID: <20020602032200.A19956@sci.fi> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: ; from tiwai@suse.de on Fri, May 31, 2002 at 04:23:23PM +0200 Errors-To: alsa-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: To: alsa-devel@lists.sourceforge.net List-Id: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org On Fri, May 31, 2002 at 04:23:23PM +0200, Takashi Iwai wrote: > Hi, > > 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? What do you mean by overhead? Binary compatibility maybe? -- Ville Syrjälä syrjala@sci.fi http://www.sci.fi/~syrjala/ _______________________________________________________________ Don't miss the 2002 Sprint PCS Application Developer's Conference August 25-28 in Las Vegas -- http://devcon.sprintpcs.com/adp/index.cfm