[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH 2/3] ff_put_wav_header: add flag to omit 0 cbSize field

[Hendrik Leppkes]

On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 8:40 AM, Daniel Verkamp <daniel at drv.nu> wrote:
> For a specific example, see "[FFmpeg-devel] Wave header" thread from
> last year [1].
>
> -flags +bitexact is still needed to produce "normal" WAV files; it may
> be worth considering whether the INFO tag should be written by
> default.  Clearly tools that don't properly interpret the headers are
> broken, but it is probably better to produce files that work rather
> than files with the mostly-useless-for-WAV encoder information by
> default.
>
> Thanks,
> -- Daniel
>

This seems like an incredibly ugly hack, I would rather not have
intentionally broken muxing - even more so without an *explicit* flag.
Triggering it with the std_compliance flag seems even worse.

- Hendrik