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

[Pete Bessman]

On Sun, 12 Oct 2003 20:12:48 -0400, "Taybin Rutkin"
<taybin at earthlink.net> said: 
> 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?

It's the other way around.   RIFF is a wrapper for other file formats,
which usually ends up being WAV.  WAV allows for different encoding
types, if that's what you mean, but the encoding-type-code 0x674F isn't
one of the universally recognized standards (0x0001 corresponds to the
ubiquitous PCM data encoding format).  With this particular file, it
seems that they have a standard WAV header at the beginning of the
file, and where the PCM data normally is they have an ogg.  'Tis quite
funky, really.

Peace,
=Pete
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