Re: [libdv-dev] Re: Should dv1394 work on PPC?

[Dan D. <da...@de...>]

On Wed, 2002-06-19 at 14:49, Bill Fink wrote:
>  dv_oss_init(dv_audio_t *audio, dv_oss_t *oss)
>  {
> -  gint format = AFMT_S16_LE, rate_request, channels_request;
> +  gint format = AFMT_S16_NE, rate_request, channels_request;
>    gchar *device;

Stefan, I am not that familiar with OSS or sound. I know this stands for
audio format signed 16bit, but what is LE vs NE? Can you apply this
patch with anything necessary to support it please? 

> Also related to the audio, how difficult would it be to add an option
> --skip-video=n that would only decode and display every nth video frame,
> since at the moment if I try and do both audio and video, the audio is
> very stuttery and not understandable because my processor can't keep up
> with the demands of decoding the full frame rate video?

Do you care to contribute that yourself? Currently, we are trying to
release libdv 0.9.6, and I thought we were ready until these issues
popped up--particularly the endian detection issues. So, this is a lower
priority right now.