[Speex-dev] Question on speex_encode_int

[Kevin Jenkins]

This is a simple question I hope someone can help with.

speex_encode_int takes a short - which is two bytes.  Suppose I want to 
record my data as 8 bit input.  Can I pass a char to speex instead, and 
if so will this halve my bandwidth usage?  If I do pass a char, is there 
any special data formatting I need to do so speex will understand it?

Thanks!