Re: [PATCH v3 5/5] ALSA: snd-usb: add quirks handler for DSD streams

[Daniel Mack <zonque@gmail.com>]

On 12.08.2013 13:27, Jesus R wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 4:52 AM, Daniel Mack <zonque@gmail.com
> <mailto:zonque@gmail.com>> wrote:

> Right now MPD supports DSD/DoP with one selectable on/off option. On
> equals DoP output and off equals conversion to PCM. I'm not aware of any
> case where it does not work. I would seem to me that there is one
> predominant format? 

Let me clarify that again: I read the above as the two options are

a) DSD material is augmented by DOP markers and send as such over a
regular PCM interface, or

b) convert DSD to PCM in software and then send PCM samples over a
regular PCM interface.


What applications need to use for my new approach is another is:

c) take DSD samples, bit reverse them if necessary, and then send them
over the generic DSD data pipe to the Linux kernel. Device-specific
details are taken care of by the kernel layer.


I'm not aware of any software that uses that new DSD format type
directly except for my example program.


Daniel