Re: sox - package is broken

[Christopher Faylor <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please at cygwin dot com>]

On Mon, Mar 17, 2014 at 08:59:26AM +0100, Dr. Alexander Kleinsorge wrote:
>thanks for all participants in this audio thread.
>(I hope this post is auto-connected to the thread with this name - I
>seldom use mailinglists. If not, sorry for that)
>
>This weekend, I was also woundering about the way the exit/stop/close is
>donw or if it can work.

I don't know if you got this but hopefully you understand that the
problem is fixed by the latest Cygwin snapshot:

http://cygwin.com/snapshots/

>But I found another issue in fhandler_dsp.cc:
>"bits / 8" should be "((bits+7) / 8)" , see below.
>as described in the german wikipedia-article (not in engl. one)
>https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/RIFF_WAVE#.E2.80.9EFormat.E2.80.9C-Abschnitt
>this makes even more sence:
>then cygwin can support 1..16 bit (which is allowed for riff/wave/pcm),
>not only 8 and 16 bit.

If you have a patch, please send it to cygwin-patches along with a
ChangeLog.

cgf

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