doc: Fix typo in PCM formats

Of course, 24bit samples are not stored in three bits, but bytes.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Knoth <adi@drcomp.erfurt.thur.de>
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
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Adrian Knoth 2012-03-27 17:54:47 +02:00 committed by Takashi Iwai
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@ -209,13 +209,13 @@ The device is physicaly disconnected. It does not accept any I/O calls in this s
\section pcm_formats PCM formats
The full list of formats present the #snd_pcm_format_t type.
The 24-bit linear samples uses 32-bit physical space, but the sample is
stored in low three bits. Some hardware does not support processing of full
The 24-bit linear samples use 32-bit physical space, but the sample is
stored in the lower three bytes. Some hardware does not support processing of full
range, thus you may get the significant bits for linear samples via
#snd_pcm_hw_params_get_sbits() function. The example: ICE1712
chips support 32-bit sample processing, but low byte is ignored (playback)
or zero (capture). The function snd_pcm_hw_params_get_sbits()
returns 24 in the case.
returns 24 in this case.
\section alsa_transfers ALSA transfers