Re: Audio Converter and Endians problem
Re: Audio Converter and Endians problem
- Subject: Re: Audio Converter and Endians problem
- From: Richard Dobson <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2003 00:25:16 +0000
I didn't think an AIFF-C file could contain little-endian data, any more than an
AIFF file can. How on earth is this indicated? An AIFF-C file, like AIFF, starts
with the 4-byte tag <FORM>, followed by a 4-byte chunksize, followed then by the
tag <AIFC> - and the FORM chunksize must surely be big-endian in all cases, as
that is what is expected. It would seem to be impossible to define an AIFF-C
file to be either little or big-endian, to begin with!
My document describing AIFF-C is admittedly somewhat elderly (vintage 1991); but
I haven't seen one anywhere that is newer. That document expressly describes all
data as big-endian, everywhere. Any pointers to more up to date specifications
would be most welcome.
Richard Dobson
Franck Stauffer wrote:
Le mardi, 28 jan 2003, ` 00:04 Europe/Paris, Bill Stewart a icrit :
They are AIFC files - AIFF cannot legally contain either little endian
or float data
Yeah i knew and even checked those files were AIFC...
I would hope that the AudioFile changes in 10.2.3 would correctly
describe these as AIFC files as little-endian based files
Well i guess i should check the version of my Frameworks then.
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