Invalid chunk size

Classification

Validator

Validator version

Error message type

jhove

1.32.1

File format

Version

Specification

Description

Location

audio/x-wav

(:unap)

corpus

audio/x-wav

(:unav)

corpus

Analyses

Analysis

Chunk size refers to the bytes 5-8 that are the second record in a file header. The record states the number of bytes after the record until the end of file.

Is it a bug in the validating software? - no

Possible solutions

Output example

"<?xml version=\""1.0\"" encoding=\""UTF-8\""?>\n<jhove xmlns:xsi=\""http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance\"" xmlns=\""http://schema.openpreservation.org/ois/xml/ns/jhove\"" xsi:schemaLocation=\""http://schema.openpreservation.org/ois/xml/ns/jhove https://schema.openpreservation.org/ois/xml/xsd/jhove/1.8/jhove.xsd\"" name=\""Jhove\"" release=\""1.24.1\"" date=\""2020-03-16\"">\n <date>2023-01-25T23:15:20+02:00</date>\n <repInfo uri=\""_/365/365Kn/365Kn61/365Kn61_2.wav\"">\n  <reportingModule release=\""1.8.1\"" date=\""2019-12-10\"">WAVE-hul</reportingModule>\n  <lastModified>2021-03-19T10:44:50+02:00</lastModified>\n  <size>196095431</size>\n  <format>WAVE</format>\n  <status>Not well-formed</status>\n  <sigMatch>\n  <module>WAVE-hul</module>\n  </sigMatch>\n  <messages>\n   <message offset=\""196094820\"" severity=\""info\"" id=\""WAVE-HUL-7\"">Ignored unrecognized chunk: \""ext[\""</message>\n   <message offset=\""196094830\"" severity=\""error\"" id=\""IFF-HUL-2\"">Chunk ID contains space before printable characters: \"" BKj\""</message>\n   <message offset=\""196094834\"" severity=\""error\"" id=\""WAVE-HUL-6\"">Invalid chunk size</message>\n   <message subMessage=\""Chunk = &quot

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