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Paul Davis wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 9:06 PM, Eric Steinberg

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>  wrote:

> > Interesting, but it's more like 48-72 hours, and sometimes as much as 100

> > hours before recordings start to break.

>

> if you're using WAV and recording 2 channels, this is impossible.

>

> you absolutely cannot record more than 2^31 bytes into a WAV file.

> ever, under any circumstances, with any software.

Err, actually, up to 2^32+7 bytes is ok for WAV [0]. More than

that and you have an invalid file. Many programs will produce

an invalid WAF file if you ask them :-).
Erik
[0] A WAV file consists or four bytes 'RIFF' followed by an uint32_t

    with the length of the file following the length field. Biggest

    number in a uint32_t is 0xffffffff so the file can be that big

    plus 8 bytes for 'RIFF' and the length.

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