Re: [PATCH] arecord without timelimit produces buggy wav files.

[Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>]

Hi,

At Wed, 18 Dec 2002 15:45:58 +0100,
Jordi Mallach wrote:
> 
> [1  <text/plain; iso-8859-1 (quoted-printable)>]
> [resent with my subscriber address... is someone moderating alsa-devel?]
 
no, but it's filtered only for subscribers.


> Hello,
> 
> Daniel Kobras reported a bug in arecord ages ago, against
> beta10a. Quoting:
> 
> > When running arecord without timelimit (no -d option), the size of the
> > RIFF chunk in a wav file is not updated when the recording is finished.
> > The resulting wav causes trouble with some applications as the dummy
> > chunk size is negative. (Chunk sizes are spec'ed as signed integer.
> > Don't ask me why.) The following patch adds the proper fixup for the
> > RIFF chunk. Patch against version 0.9.0beta10a-2 of alsa-utils.

thanks, applied to cvs with a bit modification.


> The current Debian packages have this patch applied, and the full bug
> log is in http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=131875.
> 
> Thanks,
> Jordi
> 
> PS: recently, new people started working on Debian's ALSA packages.
> We'll try to forward all the bugs and patches that have piled up against
> our packages in the previous era. What's the prefered way of reporting
> bugs and problems against alsa packages components?

please post to alsa-devel.  the bug tracking system seems not working
effectively, so far...


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Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>		SuSE Linux AG - www.suse.de
ALSA Developer				ALSA Project - www.alsa-project.org


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