Re: Alsa plays only wav files
On Tue, 17 Sep 2002, Ondrej Certik wrote:
>
>--- Michel Dänzer <daenzer@debian.org> wrote:
>> On Die, 2002-09-17 at 03:35, Chris Tillman wrote:
>> >
>> > <dumbquestion>
>> > Why don't they just put a header on the sample
>> that indicates its endianness?
>> > IIRC that's how tiff works.
>> > </dumbquestion>
>>
>> I think endianness is defined with most if not all
>> audio formats; that
>> doesn't prevent apps from thinking all the world is
>> little endian. :/
>
>BTW, why was ppc designed as big engian? Just to be
>incompatible?
>If all the world was little endian, it would be much
>easier.
>Or no?
>
Motorola always used big-endian. Being compatible with those platforms
that wanted to migrate from 68k to ppc must have seemed SLIGHTLY more
important than being compatible with something that wasn't invented
yet. It's the people who make stupid SOFTWARE that is the problem.
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