similar to: Odd number of samples in a stereo wave file

This topic is possibly more appropriate on the flac-dev list, since most flac users are not going to be interested in the details of WAVE format errors. Assuming it's ok to keep talking about it here... Ben, you've stumbled upon one of the common shortcomings of specifications. There are often assumptions which are not spelled out, or there are pieces which are vague. In some

On 16/11/2007, Brian Willoughby <brianw@sounds.wa.com> wrote: > It would actually be punitive to expect the flac code to expect and > adapt to nonsensical WAVE files. You say "punitive". I say it would be "reliable". One missing byte is a huge burden and nonsensical? People post on this list looking for solutions. They don't want to become experts in the WAV

I'm new to the mailing list but am interested in picking up a thread from earlier in the month but which I thought had become confusing so I am starting again. I should admit from the beginning that I am a colleague of Alex Brims who started the original thread. The thread in question related to a wav file with an extra two bytes at the end causing a partial sample error in the reference

"Alex Brims" <alex.brims@gmail.com> wrote: > Ok, we actually worked this out - there were 2 extra bytes doing nothing at > the end of the files. Opening the file in SoundForge and saving it (without > changing it) took off the extra bytes and allowed the file to convert to > FLAC. > > Thanks to everyone who emailed me suggestions. > > Is there a decent

<ben@yarwood.com> wrote: ... > The thread in question related to a wav file with an extra two bytes at the end causing a partial sample error in the reference flac > encoder. There seemed to be confusion over what was actually wrong with the file but as Brian Willoughby deduced correctly, the > file had an odd number of samples in the data chunk and as it was a stereo file, this

Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: > Err, thats a link to a post talking about flac's WAV reader being limited > to 4Gig files. Problem is, *all* WAV files greater than 4Gig are mal-formed. > Due to limitations in the way WAV files are specified, no valid WAV file > can ever be over 4Gig. And most don't work over 2 GB. The solution we (Xiph) have used in other projects (opusenc,

Not sure if this belongs here or in flac-dev. I am subscribed to both, so flop it over if fits better over there. Looking at the Changelog for FLAC 1.2.1 (17-Sep-2007), it says: "With the new --keep-foreign-metadata in flac, non-audio RIFF and AIFF chunks can be stored in FLAC files and recreated when decoding." Where can I find more detail on what is a

On Dec 14, 2014, at 10:02 AM, lvqcl <lvqcl.mail at gmail.com> wrote: > Currently the header of a decoded WAV file can be different to the > original WAV file because FLAC doesn't preserve 'fmt ' chunk. > > For example: create a 24-bit stereo .wav file with WAVEFORMATEXTENSIBLE > header with channel mask == 3. Encode it to .flac then decode back to .wav. > FLAC

On 3/22/07, Brian Willoughby <brianw@sounds.wa.com> wrote: ... > But to return to your question, exactly what kind of "support" are > you looking for? I wasn't looking for any particular support, but just to see what support was there (if any). ... > I do not believe that there is any need for code specifically > supporting Ambisonics. FLAC supports conversion to

On 9/26/07, Josh Coalson <xflac@yahoo.com> wrote: > --- Martin Leese <martin.leese@stanfordalumni.org> wrote: ... > > Where can I find more detail on what is a > > "non-audio" RIFF chunk? > > it is any riff chunk that is not "fmt " or "data" > > > Ambisonic ".amb" files are WAVE-EX files with > > a

This patch should fix ticket https://sourceforge.net/p/flac/bugs/419/ and its duplicate https://sourceforge.net/p/flac/support-requests/152/ some programs write odd value to ckSize of RIFF chunk. Not sure is it correct or not, but flac should read them anyway. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: odd_riff_size.patch Type: application/octet-stream

Hi, I have posted this three times to the flac-dev, vorbis-dev, and ogg-dev mailing lists. I wanted to see what code there was currently to support Ambisonics. So I downloaded the code from the xiph download page for libogg-1.1.3, libvorbis-1.1.2, vorbis-tools-1.1.1 and flac-1.1.4, but wasn't able to find anything. If it exists then I missed it, so could somebody please point me to it.

(2013/03/05 12:27), Cristian Rodr?guez wrote: > Nothing against you code, that's ugly ..but as it is a first step it can > be forgiven :-) > > I will just force flac to be built with 64 bit file offsets and just > reject any caller trying to include/link libflac into a non-lfs program > like > > http://ac-archive.sourceforge.net/largefile/off_t_headers.html > >

Brian Willoughby wrote: > The ckSize field can be odd to represent the size of the valid data. > > However, the chunk itself must always be an even size. This requires a padding byte at the end of a chunk before the next chunk can begin, or before the end of file. The latter case is the one that most often occurs in buggy RIFF writing programs - the last chunk will have an odd ckSize and

Okay.. I love flac but just had a rather serious failure that really shakes my confidence. It resulted in the near loss of a master audio recording. Fortunately, I have a backup. Though there may have been other cases where I have lost original material because I have been compressing a lot of originals and deleting them after doing a 'flac -t' on them. Basically, flac failed with a

On Jan 12, 2013, at 14:28, Martijn van Beurden wrote: > On 12-01-13 22:46, Brian Willoughby wrote: >> I would suggest that everyone keep in mind the vast installed base of >> hardware FLAC recorders and players, and not senselessly make them >> obsolete without extremely compelling reasons. > > This can be done for the same reason the change from 1.1 to 1.2 > added

On Sun, Jun 08, 2003 at 02:06:18AM +0200, Paul Seelig wrote: > This is what i get when trying to encode a WAV file: > > ------------- snip ----------------- > [pseelig]/tmp > flac -o YouGotMail.flac YouGotMail.wav > > flac 1.1.0, Copyright (C) 2000,2001,2002,2003 Josh Coalson > flac comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. This is free software, and you > are welcome to

that's why i asked the original poster if the files were odd size, i had that issue before with a 24 bit mono file and wrote this script to fix it: #!/bin/sh # # sfoddfix - Sound File ODD size FIXer # # NOTE: flac v1.1.2 pukes on files that have an odd byte count, this pads them files=${*:-*.wav} for file in $files do size=$(stat --printf='%s' $file) if [ $(($size%2)) -ne 0 ];

Hello. I'm running the swfdec-extract tool built from the 0.6.0 source tarball under gentoo and I'm finding that it's not able to rip the MP3s from the SWF file. I'm getting this: SWFDEC: ERROR: swfdec_codec_gst.c(269): swfdec_gst_decoder_init: failed to create decoder It manages to save the file as a WAV file, but I'd prefer the MP3 to get at the ID3 info in the file.

<LET OBJECT=STEAM DIRECTION=OFF> Here is an improved WAVE file loader for oggenc/oggdrop : int load_wave(char * filename,void * buffer) { fprintf(stderr,"unsupported WAVE file format !\n"); return -1; } It has the same functionality as the current code, but is shorter, has less ( zero ? ) bugs, is easier to maintain etc. </LET> I created a RIFF/WAVE ( commonly known