On Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 6:49 PM, Fernando Cassia <fcassia@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Around the winxp timeframe -perhaps earlier- the Redmond Juggernaut > started using a compression codec in wav files. So they might have a > wav extension and wav header, but the content can be compressed with > one codec, whose name escapes me at the moment... Oh yes, I remember now... ADPCM.... WAV files used to be cross-platform as long as all were PCM... I used to exchange wav files between Windows, Linux, and OS/2 systems... then came Microsoft with ADPCM and suddenly I couldn´t play those wav files anymore on my ages-old OS/2 4.5 system. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adaptive_DPCM I wonder, perhaps k3b is expecting wav files to be in PCM format, instead of ADPCM?. FC -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
