Brian Willoughby wrote: > That's an awful "solution" waiting for errors to be introduced into > what might otherwise be valid files.
I agree that this solution is non-optimal, but it is a a solution that works in most cases where the file is over 4 Gig. Furthermore, its optional; you have to explicitly enable it on the command line. > The proper solution is to use POSIX API that support 32-bit unsigned > file offsets instead of the older 32-bit signed offsets (which > supposedly still have merit because they allow seeking backwards from > the current position). This is completely un-related to the problem of "I have a 5 Gig WAV file and I want to convert it to FLAC. Erik -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Erik de Castro Lopo http://www.mega-nerd.com/ _______________________________________________ flac-dev mailing list flac-dev@xiph.org http://lists.xiph.org/mailman/listinfo/flac-dev
