[opus] Issue with decoding 8-bit PCM data

[Amit Ashara]

Hello Mark,

Thanks. Let me try the proposed configuration first to make sure that
linear 8-bit PCM is retrieved.

Regards
Amit

On Sat, Jan 9, 2016 at 12:28 PM, Mark Harris <mark.hsj at gmail.com> wrote:

> opus_decode() produces 16-bit signed linear PCM, and
> opus_decode_float() produces 32-bit floating point PCM that is useful
> when you want a higher bit depth.
>
> If you need 8-bit linear PCM then a simple solution would be to use
> only the top 8 bits of each 16-bit sample from opus_decode().  Note
> that the WAV format uses unsigned rather than signed integers for
> 8-bit linear PCM.  (It uses signed for larger sample sizes and AIFF
> uses signed for all sizes.)  So if you are writing 8-bit linear PCM to
> WAV then you would need something like (((unsigned short)sample ^
> 0x8000) >> 8) to convert from signed to unsigned and get the top 8
> bits of each sample.
>
> You will achieve better quality, however, if you apply dither.
> opusdec applies dither by default if the output is not floating point,
> although it does not support 8-bit output.
>
>  - Mark
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