[Speex-dev] question about coding

[Erik de Castro Lopo]

Leonardi Andrea wrote:

> 
> Thanks for the answer.
> So data are stored in little-endian format on the WAVE file. But
> have I to encode in big endian format or little endian is ok?! 

You need to pass the data in whatever is the native endian-ness
for your platform.

> >You are probably reading little-endian samples on a big-endian platform, and
> >failing to flip the byte order.

Using libsndfile (I am the author):

    http://www.mega-nerd.com/libsndfile/

will make you life easier.

> >By convention, PCM samples are generally
> >little-endian words,

This is not right. Some file types are little endian (WAV for example)
others are big endian (ie AIFF). There is hwoever also a big endian
WAV variant (RIFX) and some AIFF files contain little endian data.

libsndfile handles all the above variations correctly.

Erik
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