[pulseaudio-discuss] Buffering attributes with variable format

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

Le lundi 10 octobre 2011 20:44:58 Pierre-Louis Bossart, vous avez écrit :
> > Yeah? I never said there were formats with variable bit rate. I said I
> > don't
> > know the format, hence the bit rate, until after the buffer attributes
> > have
> > already been transmitted.
> 
> If you know the sampling frequency and the number of channels, you know the
> bitrate for PCM and all IEC formats. It's the same...

That's the whole point! Do you even read the emails before you press the reply 
button? If you use *_FIX_* flags on a record stream, or if provide multiple 
format_info in a playback stream, you DON'T know the sample rate, the number 
of channels and/or the sample format (thus the bits per frame).

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