[gst-devel] IEC958 caps

[pl bossart]

> I guess IEC 958 has the pre-emphasis info in-band.  I think HDCD is not, however.
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> In my experience, it's neither true that the pre-emphasis bit is wrong nor that it's ignored.  I don't know what you mean about it being in the data stream - I'm talking about PCM, here.  Pre-emphasis should be a property of audio/x-raw-int, since it would otherwise get lost, at that point.
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> HDCD could be a property of both audio/x-iec958 and audio/x-raw-int, but there's probably a better case for adding it to audio/x-raw-int than audio/x-iec958.

the x-iec958 cap is used really for iec 61937, i.e for compressed
data. I don't think anyone is talking about PCM support. If this
generates confusion, we should add an x-iec61937 cap and close this
thread.