Vorbis dev - Jul 2001 - WAVE Format info

At the risk of throwing more fuel on the fire, I found the following document
on the Microsoft website.  It appears to be the file format counterpart to the
API documentation presented by Chris Wolf.  I'm not familiar with the WAVE
format, so I'll let you guys interpret it (or tell me it is irrelevant):

http://www.microsoft.com/HWDEV/audio/multichaud.htm

[As an aside: Why does Microsoft make it so hard to find a definitive spec for
the WAVE format?  I searched their site in vain for something resembling a
"RIFF Audio Spec, Version XXX.YYY" document.  It isn't like this
is new
technology or anything.]


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Stan Seibert

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>At the risk of throwing more fuel on the fire, I found the following
>document
>on the Microsoft website.  It appears to be the file format counterpart to
>the
>API documentation presented by Chris Wolf.  I'm not familiar with the
WAVE
>format, so I'll let you guys interpret it (or tell me it is irrelevant):
>
>http://www.microsoft.com/HWDEV/audio/multichaud.htm
My version of MMREG.H (which I attached earlier) does not define the
WAVEFORMATEXTENSIBLE structure, but it seems like an even newer
extension to handle samples with more then two channels.  Note that
a WAVEFORMAT is a subset of WAVEFORMATEX, and WAVEFORMATEX
is a subset of WAVEFORMATEXTENSIBLE, indicating they they maintained 
backward compatibility. 

I guess it would be up to others to determine whether to support polyphonic
WAV files, I think Vorbis supports more then two channels, but I'm not sure.

Also thanks to Vitaly for sending that RIFFNEW.doc document.

        -Chris

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