[vorbis-dev] oggenc broken for some types of WAV files

[Chris Wolf]

I located some audio utilities, which includes a general audio I/O library.
The I/O library handles a number of audio file formats, including RIFF-WAVE,
it properly deals with the WAVEFORMATEX type of "fmt" chunk, as well
as 17 other RIFF chunk types that could appear (all text tags, such as author,
date, etc.)

You can find it here:

http://www.tsp.ece.mcgill.ca/reports/Software/index.html

It is copyrighted material, but can be included in other free software.
Not that I'm suggesting, necessarily, that it be used for this project, but
it would be worth looking at for reference purposes.

On 7/29/2001 at 9:16 PM Anthony Arcieri wrote:

>This is the way I did it the last time I wrote a RIFF processor (a generic
>one that handles both .avi and .wav)  As long as the format chunk is
>relatively valid I think the input code should process it.  Certainly you
>can give a warning if the file format is invalid, and terminate under
>normal operation even, but provide the user some way to continue to
>process the file if he/she wants (a --force command line option perhaps?)
>
>I think if the input code is too stringent in adhering to the "spec"
>people will think the code itself isn't robust.  Robust code should be
>able to process any RIFF, regardless of whether it conforms to spec
>perfectly or is horribly mangled.
>
>Tony Arcieri
>
>> That's correct, any wav loader should use something like below (alloc or
>> seek past, whatever) to get the format chunk and not assume it is the
>> size of the structure..
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