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  • noun A subsidiary format.

Etymologies

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sub- +‎ format

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Examples

  • Its setup is: stream: PLAYBACK access: RW_INTERLEAVED format: S16_LE subformat: STD channels: 1 rate: 8000 exact rate: 8000 (8000/1) msbits: 16 buffer_size: 4000 period_size: 1000 period_time: 125000 tstamp_mode: NONE period_step: 1 avail_min: 1000 period_event: 0 start_threshold: 4000 stop_threshold: 4000 silence_threshold: 0 silence_size: 0 boundary: 2097152000

    PCLinuxOS-Forums 2009

  • Its setup is: stream: PLAYBACK access: RW_INTERLEAVED format: S16_LE subformat: STD channels: 1 rate: 8000 exact rate: 8000 (8000/1) msbits: 16 buffer_size: 4000 period_size: 1000 period_time: 125000 tstamp_mode: NONE period_step: 1 avail_min: 1000 period_event: 0 start_threshold: 4000 stop_threshold: 4000 silence_threshold: 0 silence_size: 0 boundary: 2097152000

    PCLinuxOS-Forums 2009

  • Some stations are identified by their owner name (i.e. "ChroniX Radio"), even when that owner may have several stations of a DIFFERENT subformat and / or bitrate within the same genre.

    Fileforum 2008

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