[PD] readsf~ and latency problems

[Krzysztof Czaja]

yes... I agree that it is basically as simple as putting some

    while (strncmp(((t_wave*)buf)->w_datachunkid, "data", 4))...

loop afer line 252 of d_soundfile.c (need to adjust headersize
inside that loop).

Krzysztof


Richard Dobson wrote:
> 
> You are basically saying that the WAVE parsing is wrong (as it so often
> is in unix apps!). It takes about three extra lines of simple code to
> jump over unknown chunks, and then ~all~ WAVE files (e.g those produced
> by Csound including the PEAK chunk - which PD could find very useful
> anyway!) can be read by PD. The WAVE spec requires that the data chunk
> is after the fmt chunk, so this simple skipping of unknown chunks will
> always work. In fact, there can be other chunks ~before~ the fmt chunk;
> it should not be presumed to be immediately after the RIFF<>WAVE<>
> elements.
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