On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 2:35 PM, Monty Montgomery <xiphmont@email-addr-hidden> wrote:
> Regular WAV at ~CD rate is limited to about 5 hours because the length
> encoding fields are 32 bit. You need to generate an extended WAV with
> the WAVEFORMATEXTENSIBLE struct that allows a 16 exabyte data chunk.
> I'm a little surprised sox doesn't do that by default.
>
I wasn't aware that WAVEFORMATEXTENSIBLE covered file sizes - the spec
seems to be mostly about "higher resolution" sample formats. what did i
miss?
more portable solutions, i think, include using w64 format or even CAF,
which are both defined with (unsigned) 64 bit file size limits.
--p
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