From: "Martijn Sipkema" <msipkema@sipkema-digital.com>
To: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>, alsa-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: more sample formats? too little place left.
Date: Fri, 31 May 2002 19:36:54 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <007e01c208d2$31938120$0400a8c0@martijn> (raw)
In-Reply-To: s5h3cw8gzvo.wl@alsa2.suse.de
> 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
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-05-31 18:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-05-31 14:23 more sample formats? too little place left Takashi Iwai
2002-05-31 18:36 ` Martijn Sipkema [this message]
2002-05-31 18:52 ` Martijn Sipkema
2002-06-03 13:43 ` Takashi Iwai
2002-06-03 15:00 ` Martijn Sipkema
2002-06-03 20:06 ` Frank van de Pol
2002-06-02 0:22 ` Ville Syrjälä
2002-06-03 13:47 ` Takashi Iwai
2002-06-03 21:32 ` Dan Hollis
2002-06-04 11:26 ` Takashi Iwai
2002-06-04 20:55 ` Dan Hollis
2002-06-10 14:42 ` Takashi Iwai
2002-06-10 20:46 ` Dan Hollis
2002-06-12 14:30 ` Takashi Iwai
2002-06-12 18:19 ` Dan Hollis
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