[flac-dev] 2GB limit patch

nu774 honeycomb77 at gmail.com
Mon Mar 4 18:17:16 PST 2013


(2013/03/05 7:19), Erik de Castro Lopo wrote:
> Err, thats a link to a post talking about flac's WAV reader being limited
> to 4Gig files. Problem is, *all* WAV files greater than 4Gig are mal-formed.
> Due to limitations in the way WAV files are specified, no valid WAV file
> can ever be over 4Gig.

That's not an issue.
FLAC frontend already has a --ignore-chunk-sizes switch, which exactly 
does what is needed to handle mal-formed WAV files.




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