[flac-dev] [PATCH] for flac/decode.c

[lvqcl]

Richard Ash wrote:

> As someone who get this warning quite a lot when encoding (because the
> .wav files come from a closed hardware recorder which isn't going to
> get a firmware update), I don't mind too much which header gets
> written (because the wav file will be read with libsndfile), but I would
> mind if it meant that --verify when encoding didn't work for these
> files (I have no idea at what point the verification is done, but
> changing this does mean that the decoded file header will be different
> to the original input file, which might be the reason it's the way it
> is).

Currently the header of a decoded WAV file can be different to the
original WAV file because FLAC doesn't preserve 'fmt ' chunk.

For example: create a 24-bit stereo .wav file with WAVEFORMATEXTENSIBLE
header with channel mask == 3. Encode it to .flac then decode back to .wav.
FLAC creates a 24-bit stereo .wav file with WAVEFORMATEX header.