Re: Creative ADPCM?

Mike Melanson wrote:

>>All of these are the 16-bit examples -- If I provided some 8-bit example (the
>>kind you can play back in hardware using Sound Blaster cards), would anyone be
>>willing to RE them?  I have my own method of doing 8-bit ADPCM but would love
>>to know what Creative is doing...
> 
> 	Provided that there is a software binary that handles decoding, I
> don't see why we can't RE the 8-bit variant as well.

That's just it -- there isn't.  The encoding implementation is software, but 
the decoding implementation is in hardware.  I can provide an uncompressed 
8-bit sample, and three compressed samples for each of the methods (4-bit, 
3-bit, 2.6-bit).  Still interested?
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