Subject: Re: [linux-audio-user] "File size limit exceeded" (2gb)
From: prattala_AT_mappi.helsinki.fi
Date: Tue Jul 23 2002 - 11:47:30 EEST
Lainaus Robert Brown <sbg_AT_twcny.rr.com>:
> What I am trying to accomplish is to join 2 .wav files into one file
> that
> exceeds 2 GB.
I think the riff/wave specs do not allow files over 4GB in any case.
Maybe you knew this anyway.
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>> >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.
-- Jaakko Prättälä
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