Hi Andreas, On 28.03.2013 05:58, Andreas Koch wrote: >> Am I right to assume that in your case it's the same as for DoP, >> IOW, oldest in MSB? > > Good point - thanks for bringing it up - another can of worms. > With Windows having a little endian philosophy we started early on > with the first DSD workstation by putting the oldest sample in the > LSB position. ASIO came along and adopted the same thing, but then > extended support for the opposite as well. Rigisystems (offering OEM > modules for USB audio) came along about a year ago and insisted that > there is only their way, i.e. putting the oldest bit in the MSB > position. I tried to explain to them that there are already hundreds > of products out in the market that do it differently, but that didn't > matter to them. The result is that now we have implementations with > both. Up until now that was not a huge issue, because there is no > generic Windows driver and every hardware manufacturer had to have a > custom driver. > Now of course, with your heroic effort in creating a generic driver > that would help everyone, we have a mess. Some DACs expect little > endian (mine and others as well) and others (all that are based on > Rigisystems modules) big endian positions. > > Since the time I had the discussions with Rigisystems I didn't have > any further communication with them. Maybe it is a good idea to touch > base with them again and find out what the latest is. I will try my > contact there and let you know. Did you hear back from them yet? Do you think we should allocate types for Big Endian DOP formats? Thanks, Daniel _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list Alsa-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://mailman.alsa-project.org/mailman/listinfo/alsa-devel
