[BC] Converting Scott files

[Cowboy]

On Sunday 28 October 2007 07:21 pm, Scott wrote:
>  True, but the key is finding the right codec to use for the audio. You can 
>  have a .WAV file that uses an MP3 codec, hense the conversion of the 
>  Smartcasters .WAV audio.

 Not really.
 WAV is simply a modified IFF file with a Micro$oft RIFF header added.
 A system that doesn't depend on "extensions" would still see that it's
 uncompressed, signed 2's compliment audio, pull the number of channels,
 resolution, rate, and whatever else from the wav header, and decode accordingly,
 assuming it was recognized as audio at all, and not just a collection
 of binary data.
 A system that depends entirely on file name "extensions" ignoring
 the file content, will choke on incorrectly "named" files.

 I'll often store A/D streams as "wav" files even though they have nothing
 to do with audio, simply because systems for handling audio adapt well
 to large sequential data streams.
 Unfortunately, Micro$oft has become so pervasive in some areas that many
 apps will throw up a warning when the content doesn't appear to be what
 the "name" suggests. Sometimes this can be a good thing, but mostly not. 

-- 
Cowboy