Re: [Gap-dev-discuss] Cynthiune on Linux/ppc

[Riccardo Mottola]

Hi,
> Should we add a -dataEndianness method to the Format protocol ?
> > I still don't know if it is file-format dependent or not, it depends
> > how the libraries handle it
> Maybe inspection of other players is in order ?
Checking other code on the network, I found that while our backend 
initialized the backend to 16bit PCM, others initialize it as 16bit 
LittleEndian PCM.
By reading around, this appears to be a sound-specific setting and not a 
hardware specific setting. Thus more than a configure script, we should 
have an endianness property for the media type. However, the library 
used for reading the media might already do a conversion, however since 
we decode one file type always with the same library, it still would 
work. I tried it only with MP3 files, I will try other files like WAV.
I commited the change to little-endian since I think it is the safer bet 
(I guess that o n x86 my change has no effect) please try.

Riccardo