Sound formats

[Judy Perry]

Thanks, Jacque.

Next term, when I get to teach Rev again, I will pass this stuff out.

:-D

Judy

On Sun, 25 Sep 2005, J. Landman Gay wrote:

> Judy Perry wrote:
> > I and my students have encountered numerous problems using WAVs (of
> > course, _we're_ not professionals!) as opposed to AIFFs.
> >
> > Aren't some of the WAVs compressed?
> >
> > We've seen WAVs that worked in Rev fine on one platform but not another,
> > and vice-versa (no apparent pattern, but, then, given that the WAV
> > solution appeared to be 'no worky', we didn't look, either).
>
> I've been reading up on this. WAV files can be either uncompressed or
> compressed. Rev will only work with the ones that are not compressed.
> The "PCM" format I was asking about is the uncompressed format, which is
> why it seems to work in Rev. I found some understandable info here:
>
> <http://www.teamcombooks.com/mp3handbook/12.htm>