[Libav-user] Bytes per sample for different audio formats

[Taha Ansari]

On Jan 17, 2014 8:45 PM, "Carl Eugen Hoyos" <cehoyos at ag.or.at> wrote:
>
> Taha Ansari <mtaha.ansari at ...> writes:
>
> > While investigation few issues with adopted audio
> > trans-coding techniques, I discovered that call to
> > av_get_bytes_per_sample() for AV_SAMPLE_FMT_S16
> > returns '2',
>
> AV_SAMPLE_FMT_S16 -> 16 bit signed
> 16 bit == 2 bytes
>
> > and for AV_SAMPLE_FMT_FLTP returns '4'.
>
> AV_SAMPLE_FMT_FLTP -> float (in the C sense)
> float == 4 bytes
>
> Carl Eugen
>
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I see - many thanks for the clarification!
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