Question about changeset 10209:ef65ddb32456 - maximum chunk size for RIFFReader

[Seán Coffey]

On 30/07/2015 15:10, Torsten Krah wrote:
> Hi,
>
> i hope i am on the correct list, did not found a user related one,
> please tell me if i am wrong.
Hi Torsten,

I think sound-dev is a more suited mailing list for your query.
http://mail.openjdk.java.net/mailman/listinfo/sound-dev

regards,
Sean.

> Got some question about this changeset:
>
> http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk8u/jdk8u/jdk/rev/ef65ddb32456
>
> There was a check added that the maximum chunk size does not exceed 2
> GiB.
> Can you tell me the intention of this check? Before this change it was
> possible to handle e.g. RIFF Wav-Files which are greater than 2 GiB,
> after that change it will result in an exception.
>
> So how to handle files which are greater than 2 GiB now? Downgrading to
> JDK 7 or to a version before this change is not a "nice" solution ;-).
>
> thanks for some enlightenment about this changeset.
>
> thanks and kind regards
>
> Torsten
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