[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] WAV file length (writing to stdout)

[Michael Niedermayer]

Hi

On Tue, Oct 16, 2007 at 05:02:39PM +0200, Cyril B. wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> As reported recently on this mailing list [1], ffmpeg sets 0 as file length
> in the WAV header if output is streamed (for instance, when outputting to
> stdout). Nero AAC encoder does not accept such streams ('could not parse
> WAV file' error).
> 
> The WAV file specs [2] say the file length (ChunkSize) must be 36 + data
> length. The included patch writes 36 instead of 0, which satisfies Nero
> encoder.
[...]
> [2] http://ccrma.stanford.edu/courses/422/projects/WaveFormat/

no this is not the wav file spec
parts of the wav file spec can be found if you search for
"multimedia programming interface and data specification"

[...]
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