mxd@cisco.com
Wed, 29 Aug 2001 12:22:23 -0700
hi blair,
google turned up thi ms/ibm spec, but only at a private page
http://www.seanet.com/Users/matts/riffmci/riffmci.htm
is there an authoritative ref on-line?
Blair Whitney wrote:
>
> I too recall the debate about WAV.
> The specification developed by IBM and Microsoft on the WAV , RIFF
> format is:
> "Multimedia Programming Interface and Data Specifications 1.0, Resource
> Interchange File Format, Waveform Audio File Format (WAVE)", IBM
> Corporation and Microsoft Corporation, August 1991
>
> There is also an addendum/update document by Microsoft:
> "Multimedia Standards Update New Multimedia Data Types and Data
> Techniques" April 15, 1994 Revision: 3.0
>
> So there is a clear published WAV standard. It seems the problem is,
> some implementations do not follow the specification. I believe any
> reference to the format of a WAV file should refer to these published
> documents. Maybe you can refer to them as reference documents in the
> draft in informational form.
>
> I agree there are many incompatible implementations of WAV file creation
> and parsing on the market.
> Media players, such as RealPlayer for example, have troubles with MS-GSM
> WAV files. The QuickTime player on Macintosh is another one that has
> troubles with MS-GSM (although I have not tested the latest versions of
> these players for a while).
>
> It will be great if the IVM efforts can nudge the main media player
> manufacturers and software implementations to follow the standards,
> allowing interoperability.
>
> Blair Whitney
> Connected Systems
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Laile L. Di Silvestro [mailto:laile@mindspring.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2001 10:44 AM
> To: eburger@snowshore.com; Graham Klyne
> Cc: Vpim Mail List
> Subject: Re: [VPIM] audio/wav
>
> I co-authored a draft a while ago. There are some errors that need to
> be
> corrected. Due to a lack of a clear published WAV standard and multiple
> incompatible implementations on the market, I believe that both this
> draft
> (in informational form) and the IANA registration will be necessary.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Graham Klyne" <GK@ninebynine.org>
> To: <eburger@snowshore.com>
> Cc: "Vpim Mail List" <vpim@lists.neystadt.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2001 6:41 AM
> Subject: Re: [VPIM] audio/wav
>
> > Eric,
> >
> > I recall some debate about this a year or so ago. A draft was written
> > (even published as RFC?), and I understand the authors thought that
> was a
> > registration. But as you say, it's not in the IANA registry.
> >
> > #g
> > --
> >
> > At 11:24 AM 8/27/01 -0400, Eric Burger wrote:
> > >Has anyone registered audio/wav? I didn't see it in the IANA
> registry.
> > >It's referenced in draft-ietf-vpim-ivm. The usage there follows
> > >audio/vnd.wave
> > >
> > >
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