No Format chunk found

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

Possible solutions

Output example

Validator returned error.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<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/1.9/jhove.xsd" name="Jhove" release="1.32.1" date="2025-02-06">
 <date>2025-10-29T17:25:02+02:00</date>
 <repInfo uri="/corpus/file-scraper/tests/data/audio_x-wav/invalid_2_bwf_RIFF_edited.wav">
  <reportingModule release="1.8.3" date="2024-03-05">WAVE-hul</reportingModule>
  <lastModified>2025-10-28T08:43:04+02:00</lastModified>
  <size>76720</size>
  <format>WAVE</format>
  <status>Not well-formed</status>
  <sigMatch>
  <module>WAVE-hul</module>
  </sigMatch>
  <messages>
   <message severity="error" id="WAVE-HUL-5" infoLink="https://github.com/openpreserve/jhove/wiki/WAVE-hul-Messages#wave-hul-5">No Format chunk found</message>
   <message offset="16" severity="error" id="WAVE-HUL-6" infoLink="https://github.com/openpreserve/jhove/wiki/WAVE-hul-Messages#wave-hul-6">Invalid chunk size</message>
   <message subMessage="Chunk = &quot;RIFF&quot;; Bytes = 76700; Null = false" offset="20" severity="info" id="WAVE-HUL-26" infoLink="https://github.com/openpreserve/jhove/wiki/WAVE-hul-Messages#wave-hul-26">Ignored unrecognized data remaining in chunk</message>
  </messages>
  <mimeType>audio/vnd.wave</mimeType>
 </repInfo>
</jhove>

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