STRUCT SND_ENC_REAL(9)

🎀 struct snd_enc_real(9) 🎀

okay bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual — yes, the whole manual, and yes, we're starting with this little icon. It's struct snd_enc_real, and it's giving "three fields and a dream" but like, in the best way 💅

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✨ NAME ✨

struct snd_enc_real — RealAudio encoder parameters 🎧

Like, that's it. That's the whole identity. RealAudio encoder params, no cap.

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

struct snd_enc_real {
    __u32 quant_bits;
    __u32 start_region;
    __u32 num_regions;
};

Three __u32s, that's the whole struct. Short, sweet, and honestly kinda iconic for it 🌸

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💖 Members 💖

• quant_bits — number of coupling quantization bits in the stream ✨
• start_region — coupling start region in the stream 🎀
• num_regions — number of regions value 👑

(yes, they're all __u32, yes, they're all about coupling, and yes, the naming is very "someone wrote this at 2am and it worked so nobody touched it" — but it ate, fr fr)

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🌈 Description 🌈

These options were extracted from the OpenMAX IL spec 📜

That's the whole lore. Not me being dramatic — that's genuinely it. Extracted from the OpenMAX IL spec, periodt. So like, if you need to know why these fields exist, the answer is "the spec said so" and honestly that's valid 🫶

⁉️ heads up bestie: the manpage doesn't tell us anything more than "these came from the spec" — so don't go making up behaviour, okay? iykyk 💀

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🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

• Kernel file ./include/uapi/sound/compress_params.h — the actual home of this struct, go look at it, it's right there 💜
• struct snd_enc_vorbis(9) 🧚
• struct snd_enc_flac(9) 🍓
• struct snd_dec_opus(9) ⭐

(encoder family reunion, plus one decoder crashing the party, we love to see it 😭)

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and that's the whole vibe check, bestie 💫 this page lives at ./include/uapi/sound and it's stamped October 2026 — so like, future-coded of it — and it signs off the way it came in: struct snd_enc_real(9). slay 🎀✨👑