No worries on the reply time, I think this might work and I'll give it a
shot when I get back to the office after the holiday.
You're correct I only need to preserve what I read and the bit pattern
doesn't really matter, so if I can just leverage setting the channelformats
on the spec I should be
to further what Larry is saying, you might want to check out using
numeric limits to initialise min and max based on your source data
type, (or at least for float as that is the type of your min and max
variables) see https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/types/numeric_limits/lowest
So you should
