[vorbis] dsp | sox | oggenc

[fungus]

"smoerk at gmx.de" wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 17 Apr 2001 08:06:00 -0400, Wilson wrote:
> 
> >Actually, the maximum size for a WAV file is 4GB.
> 
> why is there a size limit? i know i cannot read files which are bigger
> than 2gb with most audio software, but why? i encoded i 2,5 GB wav file
> sucessfully with lame.
> 

'cos in the file header, the "size" information is
only 32 bits.

RIFF files were designed on the Commodore Amiga so
you're lucky it isn't 64k.


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