[pulseaudio-discuss] About dynamic range compression

[Tanu Kaskinen]

On Mon, 2012-07-23 at 13:52 -0300, Flavio Ceolin wrote:
> Hi folks,
> 
> I'm investigating PA code and a doubt come to my mind. What happens when
> I've a big number of samples playing at the same time and it needs to
> fit into 16bits and it exceeds this 16bits. How PA handle this problem ?
> PA just clip it to 16bits ?

Yes, that's what will happen.

-- 
Tanu