(This is the documentation for SDL3, which is under heavy development and the API is changing! SDL2 is the current stable version!)

SDL_HINT_WAVE_TRUNCATION

A variable controlling how a truncated WAVE file is handled.

Header File

Defined in <SDL3/SDL_hints.h>

Syntax

#define SDL_HINT_WAVE_TRUNCATION   "SDL_WAVE_TRUNCATION"

Remarks

A WAVE file is considered truncated if any of the chunks are incomplete or the data chunk size is not a multiple of the block size. By default, SDL decodes until the first incomplete block, as most applications seem to do.

The variable can be set to the following values:

• "verystrict" - Raise an error if the file is truncated.
• "strict" - Like "verystrict", but the size of the RIFF chunk is ignored.
• "dropframe" - Decode until the first incomplete sample frame.
• "dropblock" - Decode until the first incomplete block. (default)

This hint should be set before calling SDL_LoadWAV() or SDL_LoadWAV_IO()

Version

This hint is available since SDL 3.0.0.

CategoryAPI, CategoryAPIMacro, CategoryHints