DSD-over-USB should not be a MPD core format, because it is not a
"natural" format; it is just a temnporary over-the-wire format. This
format has been implemented in pcm_export, and does not need to be
supported by pcm_convert.
For simplicity, the MPD core should not have to deal with packing. It
is rarely used, and those plugins that need it should use the
pcm_export library instead.
This patch prepares support for floating point samples (and probably
other formats). It changes the meaning of the "bits" attribute from a
bit count to a symbolic value.
After we've been hit by Large File Support problems several times in
the past week (which only occur on 32 bit platforms, which I don't
have), this is yet another attempt to fix the issue.