93738 – faac doesn't handle WAVE_FORMAT_EXTENSIBLE correctly

Bug 93738 - faac doesn't handle WAVE_FORMAT_EXTENSIBLE correctly

Summary: faac doesn't handle WAVE_FORMAT_EXTENSIBLE correctly

Status:	RESOLVED UPSTREAM

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	[OLD] Unspecified (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	High normal (vote)
Assignee:	Gentoo Sound Team

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Blocks:	91230
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Reported:	2005-05-23 14:53 UTC by Glynn Clements
Modified:	2005-10-31 08:57 UTC (History)
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Description Glynn Clements 2005-05-23 14:53:52 UTC

media-libs/faac-1.24

In frontend/input.c, wav_open_read() relies upon the fields of the WAVEFORMATEXTENSIBLE structure being packed, but in practice they aren't. 

Specifically, there may be an additional 16 bits of padding between the Format and Samples fields.

The end result is that the GUID read into the SubFormat field is offset by 2 bytes, resulting in a "file format not supported" error when trying to read 6-channel (5.1) WAV files.

Comment 1 Diego Elio Pettenò (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-10-31 08:57:41 UTC

Please report the issue upstream. If they can provide a patch, feel free to 
reopen this bug.