Re: MIME type for WAVE with PCM?

At 22:02  +1200 16/06/09, Robert O'Callahan wrote:
>On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 9:29 PM, Simon Pieters 
><<mailto:simonp@opera.com>simonp@opera.com> wrote:
>
>The spec lists MIME types for various container/codec combinations. 
>But it does not list one for WAVE/PCM. There doesn't seem to be any 
>registered MIME type for WAVE. Wikipedia says audio/wav, audio/wave, 
>audio/x-wav. What would go in the codecs= parameter for PCM?
>
>
>"1", according to 
><http://www.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc2361.txt>http://www.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc2361.txt. 
>That's what we use in Gecko. So we return "probably" for 
>canPlayType("audio/wave; codecs=1"). Codec 0 is "unknown" so we 
>return "maybe" for canPlayType("audio/wave; codecs=0").

well, not exactly.  There should be documentation of the codecs 
parameter for WAV files before we know what to put in there.  RFC 
4281 doesn't say (because we didn't 'own' wav, I think).
-- 
David Singer
Multimedia Standards, Apple Inc.