FreeCalypso > hg > gsm-codec-lib
changeset 152:a217a6eacbad
doc/PCM-file-formats: establish "robe" format
| author | Mychaela Falconia <falcon@freecalypso.org> |
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| date | Wed, 14 Dec 2022 22:40:31 +0000 |
| parents | a13b1605142b |
| children | 14b627682458 |
| files | doc/PCM-file-formats |
| diffstat | 1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/doc/PCM-file-formats Wed Dec 14 22:25:31 2022 +0000 +++ b/doc/PCM-file-formats Wed Dec 14 22:40:31 2022 +0000 @@ -16,3 +16,10 @@ Both utilities take a mandatory command line argument specifying the endian order for the raw format - there is no default. + +Going forward, I (Mother Mychaela) prefer big-endian format for raw PCM16 files: +aside from it being the network byte order on the Internet, 16-bit and 32-bit +numbers appear "naturally" in hex dumps in BE, but not in LE. Therefore, newly +developed utilities will read and write PCM16 data in "robe" format - "robe" is +English pronunciation play on "raw BE", and it is also the ritual garment worn +by Themyscira telecom priestesses. :-)