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# Samples per packet

The number of uncompressed frames generated by a compressed frame, where an uncompressed frame is one sample from each channel.

## Overview

This is also the frame duration, expressed in the media’s timescale, where the timescale is equal to the sample rate. For uncompressed formats, this field is always `1`.

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