Subject: Re: [linux-audio-user] Funky wav file format 674f
From: Pete Bessman (ninjadroid_AT_ml1.net)
Date: Mon Oct 13 2003 - 07:37:32 EEST
On Sun, 12 Oct 2003 20:12:48 -0400, "Taybin Rutkin"
<taybin_AT_earthlink.net> said:
> Isn't one of the definitions of a WAV file is that it can merely wrap
> another file format? And usually that format is RIFF, but not
> necessarily?
It's the other way around. RIFF is a wrapper for other file formats,
which usually ends up being WAV. WAV allows for different encoding
types, if that's what you mean, but the encoding-type-code 0x674F isn't
one of the universally recognized standards (0x0001 corresponds to the
ubiquitous PCM data encoding format). With this particular file, it
seems that they have a standard WAV header at the beginning of the
file, and where the PCM data normally is they have an ogg. 'Tis quite
funky, really.
Peace,
=Pete
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