WAV header, Wav header format Options

[poochi]

how is the wreserved field in set in the wav header while decoding .Flac files using flac 1.2.1 win32 exe ?
ie If i decode a flac file using flac-1.2.1.exe few files have wreserved field to be 0x10 and few others 0x18 .. but http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/wi...1(v=vs.85).aspx says i need to make it 0 what exactly is happening ?

Thank you

[nu774]

Samples field of WAVEFORMATEXTENSIBLE is a discriminated union, and only one of wValidBitsPerSample, wSamplesPerBlock, and wReserved are valid / used, depending on the context.
For detail, read http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/wi...e/gg463006.aspx

In your case, this field is used not as wReserved, but as wValidBitsPerSample. Therefore, 0x10 means bits per sample is 16, and 0x18 means 24.

[poochi]

Thank you it was very helpful