[vorbis-dev] On the "broken" .WAV files issue

[Chris Moeller]

I believe I proposed a fix to oggenc, but it was rejected because it seems
there is some (unwritten) standard that says that PCM format does not use
the extended header.

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From: "Chris Wolf" <cwolf at starclass.com>
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Sent: Sunday, August 26, 2001 9:54 AM
Subject: Re: [vorbis-dev] On the "broken" .WAV files issue

Fabian,

FYI, others and myself, had already attempted to bring this to the attention
of interested
parties, back in July:

http://www.xiph.org/archives/vorbis-dev/200107/0218.html

The win32 utility, oggdrop, handles the new "fmt" chunk properly.

Regards,

Chris

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On 8/26/2001 at 12:08 PM Fabian Giesen wrote:

>A friend of mine recently had a problem with a "broken" .WAV file
>(as you call them) because oggenc first printed out a warning and
>then didn't accept the file because of a "unexpected EOF error".
>
>Because I was interested in the issue, I decided to take a look at
>the oggenc source, and in fact, it is your .WAV reader that's wrong.
>More precisely: there are two version of the format chunk, one that's

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