Re: [linux-audio-user] "File size limit exceeded" (2gb)

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Subject: Re: [linux-audio-user] "File size limit exceeded" (2gb)
From: Richard Guenther (rguenth_AT_tat.physik.uni-tuebingen.de)
Date: Tue Jul 23 2002 - 14:09:16 EEST

On Tue, 23 Jul 2002 prattala_AT_mappi.helsinki.fi wrote:

> Next quote from
> http://www.xiph.org/archives/vorbis/200104/0197.html
>
> >> >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.

Its 32 bits _signed_, so the limit is 2GB, not 4.

Richard. 

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