[vorbis-dev] Sampling resolution

[John Edwards]

On Tuesday, January 06, 2004 2:46 PM, Carsten Haese wrote:
Subject: Re: [vorbis-dev] Sampling resolution

<p>> On Tue, 2004-01-06 at 09:34, Christian Wassmer wrote:
> > Hi, it seems that every decoded Ogg/Vorbis-File has a sampling
> > resolution of 16 bits. Is this correct?
>
> That depends on how you decode it. The Vorbis codec uses floating point
> numbers internally. Most applications have them converted on the fly to
> 16 bit integers, but you can choose to read the floats and scale them to
> any resolution.

As indeed my own version oggdec does. It provides options to output wave
files as 8, 16, 24 or 32 bit ints or floats.

John

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