[Flac-dev] problem with file.wav > 700MB

[Jan Suhr]

On Mittwoch 09 Mai 2001 02:53, you wrote:
> > > first I should say that it MIGHT not be because the file is
> > > large. the wave reader in flac is pretty rudimentary and if there
> > > is any sub chunk between the wave header and data sub chunk flac
> > > will give you that error.  could you inspect the wav file to see
> > > if that's the case?
> >
> > Sorry, I dont know how to do this. Is it easy to explain me, a
> > user?
>
> are you using windows or unix?  on unix you can do something like:
>
> 	od -c file.wav | head -20
>
> which will show you the first 100 or so characters.  any non
> printable ones will be in octal (like \003 for ctrl-c).  compare the
> subchunks you find against the wav format:
>
> 	http://www.borg.com/~jglatt/tech/wave.htm
>
> if it has a 'list' 'plst' 'cue ' 'labl' 'note' or any subchunk that
> is not 'data' then flac will not parse it.

ok, I found a "pad" subchunk. Is this the reason for flac to disagree 
with this file? If so, why flac doesnt ignore this subchunk? 
At http://www.borg.com/~jglatt/tech/wave.htm I read:

All applications that use WAVE must be able to read the 2 required 
chunks and can choose to selectively ignore the optional chunks. A 
program that copies a WAVE should copy all of the chunks in the WAVE, 
even those it chooses not to interpret.

Bye, Jan
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