[gst-devel] What is the audio 'depth' setting?

[Ron Yorgason]

Often when I see audio recording command examples, it looks something like this:

audio/x-raw-int,channels=1,depth=16,width=16,rate=48000

I'm pretty sure the width=16 means we're using 16 bit audio because
when I go down to the driver layer, Alsa passes in to my driver that
it's using 16 bit audio.  But what does the depth=16 do?

--Ron