From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Takashi Iwai Subject: Re: [PATCH] arecord without timelimit produces buggy wav files. Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2002 12:12:19 +0100 Sender: alsa-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Message-ID: References: <20021218144558.GA24742@nubol.int.oskuro.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by SEMI 1.14.4 - "Hosorogi") Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20021218144558.GA24742@nubol.int.oskuro.net> Errors-To: alsa-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: To: Jordi Mallach Cc: alsa-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, stevenk@debian.org, madkiss@madkiss.org List-Id: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org Hi, At Wed, 18 Dec 2002 15:45:58 +0100, Jordi Mallach wrote: > > [1 ] > [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... -- Takashi Iwai SuSE Linux AG - www.suse.de ALSA Developer ALSA Project - www.alsa-project.org ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.NET email is sponsored by: Geek Gift Procrastinating? Get the perfect geek gift now! Before the Holidays pass you by. T H I N K G E E K . C O M http://www.thinkgeek.com/sf/