diff --git a/darkice/trunk/ChangeLog b/darkice/trunk/ChangeLog
index cba54ae..31f976e 100644
--- a/darkice/trunk/ChangeLog
+++ b/darkice/trunk/ChangeLog
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ Darkice next release
       Steven G. Johnson <stevenj@alum.mit.edu> and
       Alejandro Forero Cuervo <bachue@bachue.com>
       see http://www.gnu.org/software/ac-archive/htmldoc/acx_pthread.html
+    o added proper detection of netural endiannes for 16 bit recording
 
 09-02-2003: DarkIce 0.13 released
 
diff --git a/darkice/trunk/configure.in b/darkice/trunk/configure.in
index ac8dd3a..57498e6 100644
--- a/darkice/trunk/configure.in
+++ b/darkice/trunk/configure.in
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ AC_HEADER_SYS_WAIT()
 
 AC_TYPE_PID_T()
 AC_TYPE_SIZE_T()
-
+AC_C_BIGENDIAN()
 
 AC_CHECK_LIB( socket, socket)
 AC_CHECK_LIB( nsl, gethostbyname)
diff --git a/darkice/trunk/src/OssDspSource.cpp b/darkice/trunk/src/OssDspSource.cpp
index 23f3a80..f39a41e 100644
--- a/darkice/trunk/src/OssDspSource.cpp
+++ b/darkice/trunk/src/OssDspSource.cpp
@@ -102,6 +102,18 @@
  *----------------------------------------------------------------------------*/
 static const char fileid[] = "$Id$";
 
+/*------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+ *  Define the natural endiannes of 16 bit recording if not defined,
+ *  based on the endiannes of the system
+ *----------------------------------------------------------------------------*/
+#ifndef AFMT_S16_NE
+#   ifdef WORDS_BIGENDIAN
+#       define AFMT_S16_NE AFMT_S16_BE
+#   else
+#       define AFMT_S16_NE AFMT_S16_LE
+#   endif
+#endif
+
 
 /* ===============================================  local function prototypes */
 
@@ -295,6 +307,9 @@ OssDspSource :: close ( void )                  throw ( Exception )
   $Source$
 
   $Log$
+  Revision 1.13  2003/02/12 15:48:22  darkeye
+  added proper guessing for natural endiannes of 16 bit recording
+
   Revision 1.12  2002/12/20 10:40:40  darkeye
   added support for big endian OSS devices (like Linux PowerPC)