you answer the question yourself, why not google for "wav file maximum size" and find the answer as you suspect an issue. On Oct 12, 2010, at 4:58 AM, Renato wrote: > Hello, > I made a large recording in Ardour. The .wav file is 4.9 gb. I'm > having problems with it and I don't understand if the file is faulty > or if it's something related with the wav format, which seems to have > some problems with large files (or am I wrong?). > I suspect it could be faulty because the recording in Ardour > actually went on untill there was no more disk space, at which point it > obviously stopped. So maybe there could be something wrong in the > header? > > The symptoms are: in Ardour (2.8.11 BTW), with a "small" zoom (such > that I can see all 5 hours of recording in one screen), I can see the > contour of the waveform only to a certain point, at approx. 1h 30m, and > thereafter only silence. > > Strange thing number one is, if I zoom in, at a certain point the > waveform appears also for the second part. > > Strange thing number two is whenever I move the transport bar to a part > of the region in the "fake silence zone" and hit play, the transport starts moving from there, but the > audio is actually playing *from the beggining* of the region (so more > than 1h and 30m before). If I pause, move the transport bar and hit > play, the audio now starts from where it had left... > > Strange thing number three is that strange thing number two stops > happening if I put the transport before the 1h 30m point, hit play, and > go through that point (after which I hear silence) > > Do I have any chances of getting back the whole audio file? > > BTW I tried opening the original .wav with mplayer,vlc,audacity and > mhwaveedit and all see the file terminating at that critical point. > > > Also, what precautions should I take in the future when I'll have to > record such long sessions? > > thanks for any help, > renato > _______________________________________________ > Linux-audio-user mailing list > Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
