ENUM SNDRV_COMPRESS_ENCODER(9)

✨ enum sndrv_compress_encoder(9) ✨

okay so bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual 💖 this one's a tiny little page but it's lowkey important, so let's get into it 🫶

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🌸 NAME 🌸

enum sndrv_compress_encoder — it's the encoder metadata key, periodt 💅 that's literally the whole name. one job. iconic.

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🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

enum sndrv_compress_encoder {
    SNDRV_COMPRESS_ENCODER_PADDING ,
    SNDRV_COMPRESS_ENCODER_DELAY

};

like, that's it. two constants. the whole enum. no cap 🧚

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💜 Constants 💜

• SNDRV_COMPRESS_ENCODER_PADDING — the number of samples that the encoder appends at the end of the track 🌈 so like, extra bits tacked on the tail end, iykyk
• SNDRV_COMPRESS_ENCODER_DELAY — the number of samples that the encoder inserts at the beginning of the track 🦋 so this one's the little warm-up stretch at the front, before the actual audio starts

fr fr both of these are just sample counts the encoder tells you about — one for the front, one for the back. don't mix them up bestie 😭

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👑 SEE ALSO 👑

Kernel file ./include/uapi/sound/compress_offload.h — that's where all this lives 🍓

and the whole friend group it rolls with:

• struct snd_compressed_buffer(9)
• struct snd_compr_params(9)
• struct snd_compr_tstamp(9)
• struct snd_compr_tstamp64(9)
• struct snd_compr_avail(9)
• struct snd_compr_avail64(9)
• struct snd_compr_caps(9)
• struct snd_compr_codec_caps(9)
• struct snd_compr_metadata(9)
• struct snd_compr_task(9)
• enum snd_compr_state(9)
• struct snd_compr_task_status(9)

go read those too, they're all serving main character energy in the compressed-audio saga 💀🔥

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mwah 💋 that's the whole page — brought to you from ./include/uapi/sound, dated October 2026, and it's still enum sndrv_compress_encoder(9) in case you forgot already 🙈 love u, go write some audio drivers bestie 💖✨