From: Sebastian D. <sl...@un...> - 2008-02-28 08:20:00
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Am Mittwoch, den 27.02.2008, 22:08 +0200 schrieb Kai Vehmanen: > Hi, > > On Tue, 26 Feb 2008, Sebastian Dröge wrote: > > >> http://www.esben-stien.name/test.w64 > > Our typefinder at least knows about it already. It seems to be a > > RIFF/WAVE file, containing 64 bit integer samples. I might be wrong > > though, needs further investigation. > > RIFF has the unfortunate limitation that chunk size header field is a > 32bit value, and thus you cannot have more than 4GB in a single RIFF/WAVE > file. And for many uses (like timemachine), you'll stumble on this > limitation all the time. So as a result, you have W64 (and RF64, which is > different btw) that extend the header. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WAV. > > I've used libsndfile to add W64 support to my own apps (and I guess that's > what timemachine is using as well). Hi, I've filed this bug for R64/W64 support: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=519220 Will look at it when I have some time and nobody is faster than me ;) Could either be added to libgstriff/wavparse or a separate plugin I guess... |