[vlc-devel] [PATCH 4/5] wasapi: add 24bits support

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

Le perjantaina 25. lokakuuta 2019, 15.45.16 EEST Alexandre Janniaux a écrit :
> Hi,
> 
> To be honest, when the main answer is "it was decided
> decades ago", I do feel it's a great secret wisdom.

That's not what I wrote, and that just means it's obvious enough that there's 
no point reopening the topic.

> Thomas's patch seems to make sense though, as a lot of
> audio softwares are implementing it. There are also
> probably some different use cases for exclusive mode when
> using VLC in a different use case than the home multimedia
> player.

I don't see how the patchset is useful. I've seen requests for PCM pass-
through, which sort-of makes sense with a digital output, but that's not at 
all what this patchset does.

PCM pass-through means that you set exclusive mode and force the DAC format to 
match the sample rate, channel map of the decoded input, and pick the wire 
sample format, practically signed 16-bits. This patch does almost the exact 
opposite: negotiate the rate, map and bit depth.

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