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

[Benoit Fouet]

Cyril B. wrote:
> Axel Holzinger wrote:
>   
>> I think Nero AAC encoder is an application that is not considering that a
>> given file might still be recorded at the moment it is passed to Nero AAC
>> encoder.
>>
>> [...]
>>
>> To make a long story short: Fix it in the first play! That means it is not
>> a good idea to fix a Nero AAC encoder problem in ffmpeg.
>>
>> Just my 0.02?
>> Axel
>>
>>     
>
> You may be right, I'm not qualified enough to say which approach is correct.
>
> Nevertheless, Nero AAC encoder has this option:
>
> -ignorelength : Ignores length signaled by WAV headers of input file.
>                 Useful for certain frontends using stdin.
>
> Even with this option, the file length must be >= 36.
>
>   

the wave header length is (at least) 44 bytes, no ? where does this 36
come from ?

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Ben
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