[gstreamer-bugs] [Bug 339838] [audioconvert] support floats with non-native endianness

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------- Comment #7 from Tim-Philipp Müller  2007-03-29 14:54 UTC -------
> Hm, wouldn't this be an ABI change? audio/x-raw-float must have an endianess
> field now but it didn't even had one before so every caps that have
> audio/x-raw-float without endianess field would break unless I missed
> something.

I think endianness was always a required field (see appendix in plugin writer's
guide, for example), so it shouldn't be a problem.


> We should, until 0.11, take float caps without endianess as floats in host byte
> order... I'll change that for now.

If you want to be nice (or know of any actually existing broken
audio/x-raw-float producers), otherwise I'm not sure it's really needed.



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