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From: Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>
Date: Thu, 05 Jan 2006 23:39:23 +0000
Subject: Re: [OT] ALSA userspace API complexity
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To: Hannu Savolainen <hannu@opensound.com>
Cc: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>, linux-sound@vger.kernel.org, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>

On Fri, 2006-01-06 at 01:06 +0200, Hannu Savolainen wrote:
> > - PCM with 3-bytes-packed 24bit formats
> Applications have no reasons to use for this kind of stupid format so
> OSS translates it to the usual 32 bit format on fly. In fact OSS API
> does have support for this format. 

What about hardware that only understands this format?

Lee