Difference between revisions of "WAV"

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| Developer  = [[Microsoft]], [[IBM]]
 
| Developer  = [[Microsoft]], [[IBM]]
 
| Header      = RIFF
 
| Header      = RIFF
 +
| Custom      = PCM
 +
| Instruments = Intrinsic
 
| OutputDA    = Yes
 
| OutputDA    = Yes
 
| OutputMIDI  = No
 
| OutputMIDI  = No
 
| OutputFM    = No
 
| OutputFM    = No
 
| OutputPSG  = No
 
| OutputPSG  = No
| Instruments = Intrinsic
 
 
| Released    = 1991-08-??
 
| Released    = 1991-08-??
 
| FirstGame  = ?
 
| FirstGame  = ?

Revision as of 13:54, 30 October 2014

[[Category: Formats With {{{Content}}} Content]]
Waveform Audio File Format
WAV.png
Developer: Microsoft, IBM
Header: RIFF
Content: {{{Content}}}
Instruments: Intrinsic
Target Output
Output - Digital Audio.png Output - MIDI - No.png Output - FM Synthesis - No.png Output - PSG - No.png
Released: 1991-08-??
First Game: ?
Extensions
  • *.wav

The Waveform Audio File Format (WAV) is a container format for audio data developed by Microsoft and IBM. Although the format supports pretty much any audio codec, it almost always uses Microsoft's uncompressed pulse code modulation format which supports sampling as low as 8 KHz, 8 bit mono to 48 KHz, 16 bit stereo. The VGMPF will not store the ripped soundtrack of games that use wave because the ratio is 1-to-1 (and because they take up too much space). The OGG recording will sound nearly identical, so the wave format is not needed.


Players

(Category)


Editors

(Category)


Converters

(Category)

WAV to ?

? to WAV


Games

(Category)


Released

Title

Sample

1996-11-30 Diablo (W32)
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1997-03-06 Magic: The Gathering (W32)
1997-11-19 Lords of Magic (W32)
2002-08-11 Touhou Koumakyou ~ the Embodiment of Scarlet Devil. (W32)


Technical

All WAV files use RIFF tree structure, and the identifier is WAVE.

RIFF Tree Structure

File Root
│
└─ RIFF:WAVE     - RIFF Wave header
   ├─ fmt        - Wave format chunk
   └─ data       - Waveform data chunk


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