[FFmpeg-trac] #11364(ffprobe:new): µ-law: pcm_mulaw files incorrectly shown as "s16", actually 8 bit per sample

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#11364: µ-law: pcm_mulaw files incorrectly shown as "s16", actually 8 bit per
sample
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             Reporter:  Marcus Müller  |                    Owner:  (none)
                 Type:  defect         |                   Status:  new
             Priority:  minor          |                Component:  ffprobe
              Version:  6.1.1          |               Resolution:
             Keywords:                 |               Blocked By:
             Blocking:                 |  Reproduced by developer:  0
Analyzed by developer:  0              |
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Comment (by Balling):

 Are you Marcus from Gnuradio project, lol

 Anyway, I was wrong https://imgur.com/a/jo9NzKh mediainfo actually shows
 it as 8 bit in metadata.

 s16 does not mean it is 16 bit. It just means it will be decoded as s16.
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Ticket URL: <https://trac.ffmpeg.org/ticket/11364#comment:4>
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