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This format is just a convenience macro used to represent the "alien" data format. This macro can be used as a programming aid in applications that need to be able to process samples with wrong endianess. AFMT_S16_OE can be stored in a 32 bit integer word (short type in C/C++). However the value must be converted to the native format (AFMT_S16_NE) by byte swapping the sample value. Please see the Handling endianess of samples section for more info.