[pulseaudio-discuss] [PATCH 3/8] rtp: Drop support for non-L16 media

[Arun Raghavan]

On Mon, 2016-04-11 at 19:23 +0300, Tanu Kaskinen wrote:
> On Mon, 2016-02-29 at 15:46 +0530, arun at accosted.net wrote:
> > 
> > From: Arun Raghavan <git at arunraghavan.net>
> > 
> > There doesn't seem much value in supporting streaming U8/mulaw/alaw on
> > the network, and it's unlikely these get any testing. Makes more sense
> > to drop these formats and just convert to L16 if we're dealing with
> > source media in that format.
> It seems likely that the main motivation behind removing the support is
> not mentioned in the commit message. Something to do with gstreamer?

Not sure what you mean. These are not likely to be used or tested. I
didn't want to add a bunch of equivalent kludge in the GStreamer
backend as well to support the same thing.

-- Arun