[linux-audio-user] Funky wav file format 674f

Taybin Rutkin taybin at earthlink.net
Sun Oct 12 20:28:00 EDT 2003


On Sun, 2003-10-12 at 17:15, Pete Bessman wrote:
> On Mon, 13 Oct 2003 06:59:54 +1000, "Erik de Castro Lopo"
> <erikd-lad at mega-nerd.com> said: 
> > Do you see what I see?
> 
> HEH!  So I wonder what that WAV header is doing in the file?
> Hmm, and what superior set of heuristics is XMMS using
> to sox and my sundry hacks to determine the files identity?

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?

Taybin




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