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-(1) SPDIF is made by tricking the I2S bus but this consumes a fair bit of CPU as it multiplies by four the throughput on the i2s bus. To optimize some computation, the parity of the spdif frames must always be 0, so at least one bit has to be available to force it. As SPDIF samples are 20+4 bits length maximum, the LSB is used for that purpose, so the bit 24 is randomly toggling. It does not matter for 16 bits samples but it has been chosen to truncate the last 4 bits for 24 bits samples.
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+(1) SPDIF is made by tricking the I2S bus but this consumes a fair bit of CPU as it multiplies by four the throughput on the i2s bus. To optimize some computation, the parity of the spdif frames must always be 0, so at least one bit has to be available to force it. As SPDIF samples are 20+4 bits length maximum, the LSB is used for that purpose, so the bit 24 is randomly toggling. It does not matter for 16 bits samples but it has been chosen to truncate the last 4 bits for 24 bits samples. I'm sure that some smart dude can further optimize spdif_convert() and use the user bit instead. You're welcome to do a PR but, as said above, I (philippe44) am not interested by 24 bits mental illness :-) and I've already made an effort to provide 20 bits which already way more what's needed :-)
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