[alsa-devel] [PATCH] crec: Add option to specify codec ID

[Richard Fitzgerald]

On Sun, 2016-11-27 at 11:52 -0600, Pierre-Louis Bossart wrote:
> > I am not Ok to add support for any other format apart from bespoke (file
> > dump) and PCM wav header and save to file.
> >
> > I am okay to add support to dump data to stdio for any format, so that we
> > dont bother to support those file formats.
> 
> it's not clear to me why you would make an exception for bespoke, just 
> dump everything to stdio and use a file indirection if you want the raw 
> data in all cases?
> 

Yes, I think that's best. For one thing it's easier to explain in the -h
help: PCM can go to wav file, everything can go to stdout, stdout is
always raw.

> >
> > Is this clear enough, does that work for you folks?
> >
> >>
> >> The alternative is that Cirrus maintains its own branched version of
> >> tinycompress with useful tools but that doesn't seem like a sensible
> >> road to go down either.
> >
> > Agreed
> >