[gst-devel] audio/raw float caps format

[Bastien Nocera]

On Sun, 2003-06-29 at 02:36, Steve Baker wrote:
> Leif said:
> > (I've never heard of 16-channel interlaced
> > audio before ...)
> 
> Audio might come out of multi-channel sound cards looking like this - I
> thing the mime types should support big numbers even if real apps will
> deinterlace audio like this as soon as it gets the chance.
> 
> > The relevant part of the mimetypes file would then read thusly :
> > 
> > '''
> > Preface - properties for all audio formats:
> >   'rate' = 8000 - 192000 (INT) <- sampling rate
> >   'channels' = 1 - 2 (INT) <- number of audio channels
> 
> Why the artificial limitations? There is no extra effort with keeping
> the definition broad, and it avoids annoying someone in the future who
> has wacky mutant requirements.
> 
> How about:
>   'rate' = 1 - MAXINT (INT) <- sampling rate
>   'channels' = 1 - MAXINT (INT) <- number of audio channels

6 channels isn't really mutant though (5.1 sound output...)

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Bastien Nocera <hadess at hadess.net>