From: "Ville Syrjälä" <syrjala@sci.fi>
To: alsa-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: more sample formats? too little place left.
Date: Sun, 2 Jun 2002 03:22:00 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020602032200.A19956@sci.fi> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <s5h3cw8gzvo.wl@alsa2.suse.de>; from tiwai@suse.de on Fri, May 31, 2002 at 04:23:23PM +0200
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
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-06-02 0:22 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
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 [this message]
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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