[Flac] FLAC encoder craps out at 2 GiB border

Josh Coalson xflac at yahoo.com
Wed Jul 20 10:06:39 PDT 2005


--- Stephan Grossklass <sgrossklass at yahoo.de> wrote:

> As if I hadn't had enough audio problems yet (Audacity won't
> record in 24/32 bits in spite of the MME driver being capable of
> such (verified with line-in plugin for Winamp) and stays in 16
> bit, now I need to find software that works; a driver bug
> causing only 32 bit int to work for recording complicates things
> further), now I've also encountered a FLAC encoder file size
> limit. Look (sorry for the crappy line breaks):
> 
> flac 1.1.2, Copyright (C) 2000,2001,2002,2003,2004,2005  Josh 
> [...]
> options: -P 4096 -b 4608 -m -l 8 -q 0 -r 0,4 -V
> Radio 20050620-01 freeFM Antistatik Top 50.wav: 81% complete,
> ratio=0,666
> Radio 20050620-01 freeFM Antistatik Top 50.wav: ERROR during
> encoding
>                                                 state =
> FLAC__STREAM_ENCODER_FATAL_ERROR_WHILE_WRITING
> 
> The resulting file up to that point is 2147490095 bytes or
> 2.00000600423[...] GiB in size. Very suspicious.

yep, there are still some 2GiB and 4GiB limits in flac.
I'm still not sure how to handle the various >2G WAV hacks
that exist though.

Josh



		
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