kind | lesson |
symptom | Both alternatives to 16-bit succeed in every way a program can check. At bits_per_sample=8 the driver installs, delivers exactly the expected 16000 B/s, and reports zero overruns — but every sample is the LOW BYTE of the real 16-bit value with the high bits discarded, so the DC pedestal and the signal are gone and only truncated LSB noise remains. At bits_per_sample=32 it installs, delivers exactly 64000 B/s, reports zero overruns, and carries a right-aligned 16-bit value in a 32-bit slot with the upper two bytes always zero. Nothing errors in either case. |
hw | esp32-s3, xiao-esp32s3-sense |
sw | esp-idf, arduino-esp32, i2s |
host | linux, aarch64, debian-13 |
intent | Choosing a sample width for PDM microphone capture on an ESP32-S3 |
project | hidden |
date | 2026-08-28 |
status | working |
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