Dealing with PCM audio streams (like WAV files) you sometimes find both. After all, there are thousands of codecs + media containers + multiple versions. https

Dealing with PCM audio streams (like WAV files) you sometimes find both. After all, there are thousands of codecs + media containers + multiple versions. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FFmpeg#Supported_formats https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FFmpeg#Supported_formats > When more than one byte is used to represent a PCM sample, the byte order (big endian vs. little endian) must be known. Due to the widespread use of little-endian Intel CPUs, little-endian PCM tends to be the most common byte orientation. https://wiki.multimedia.cx/index.php/PCM https://wiki.multimedia.cx/index.php/PCM