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| From: | Erik de Castro Lopo <mle+ocaml@m...> |
| Subject: | Re: [Caml-list] Operators for Int64 and Int32 |
Michał Maciejewski wrote:
> I'm quite new to OCaml but recently I had to write a wave file parsing
> application.
If you need to read WAV files, why not just use libsndfile:
http://www.mega-nerd.com/libsndfile/
and the libsndfile Ocaml wrapper:
http://www.mega-nerd.com/tmp/libsndfile-ocaml-20071120-0622.tgz
It's basically working, but there might still be some slight
API changes.
The reason I suggest this is that WAV file parsing is probably
much, much harder than you immagine. Here's why:
- WAV files allow the audio data to be encoded in dozens of
different formants. Supporting even a small subset of them
is a PITA.
- There are numerous programs that create malformed files.
Adding workarounds to these is a lot of work.
- libsndfile already supports a whole bunch of other file
formats.
Erik
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