[LAU] Creating a very long audio file?

Erik de Castro Lopo mle+la at mega-nerd.com
Tue Apr 2 22:42:03 UTC 2013


Monty Montgomery wrote:

> Huh, you're right.
> 
> Oh, i see... we've been supporting >4GB wave files in the Xiph stuff
> by setting the length to 0xFFFFFFFF and assuming the data chunk is
> last (intuiting chunk length from file length).

Yes, thats a horrible hack that makes me cringe even to think about
it :-).

libsndfile supports a couple file file formats that support > 4Gig
files eg RF64, W64 and CAF.

Erik
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