Appendix A2- XWAV File Format

 

1 XWAV file

Standard WAV header

RIFF header

Format Chunk

Additional XWAV header

HARP Chunk

XWAV directory

HARP dir subchunk 1

HARP dir subchunk 2

. . .

HARP dir subchunk 30

Data

Data Chunk 1

Data Chunk 2

. . .

Data Chunk 30

 

 

Field Name

PARAMS.xhd. precedes each

Length in Bytes

Start

End

Format

# of Elements

Example

Standard WAV header

Riff Header

ChunkID

4

0

3

uchar

4

“RIFF”

ChunkSize

4

4

7

uint32

1

filesize-8

Format

4

8

11

uchar

4

“WAVE”

Format Chunk

fSubchunkID

4

12

15

uchar

4

“fmt “

fSubchunkSize

4

16

19

uint32

1

16

AudioFormat

2

20

21

uint16

1

1

NumChannels

2

22

23

uint16

1

1

SampleRate

4

24

27

uint32

1

200000

ByteRate

4

28

31

uint32

1

400000

BlockAlign

2

32

33

uint16

1

2

BitsPerSample

2

34

35

uint16

1

16

SUBTOTAL

 

36

0

35

 

 

 

Additional XWAV Header

HARP Chunk

hSubchunkID

4

36

39

uchar

4

“harp”

hSubchunkSize

4

40

43

uint32

1

56+30*32

WavVersionNumber

1

44

44

uchar

1

0

FirmwareVersionNumber

10

45

54

uchar

10

1.xxxyyyzz

InstrumentID

4

55

58

uchar

4

“01  “

SiteName

4

59

62

uchar

4

“ABCD”

ExperimentName

8

63

70

uchar

8

“EXP12345”

DiskSequenceNumber

1

71

71

uchar

1

1

DiskSerialNumber

8

72

79

uchar

8

12345678

NumOfRawFiles

2

80

81

uint16

1

1

Longitude

4

82

85

uint32

1

-17912345

Latitude

4

86

89

uint32

1

8912345

Depth

2

90

91

uint16

1

5555

Reserved

8

92

99

uchar

8

00000000

SUBTOTAL

 

64

36

99

 

 

 


 

 

Field Name

PARAMS.xhd. precedes each

Length in Bytes

Start

End

Format

# of Elements

Example

Additional XWAV Header cont.

Repeated for each RawFile(k) n=32(k-1), usually 30

HARP dir Subchunks

year(k)

1

100+n

100+n

uchar

1

7

month(k)

1

101+n

101+n

uchar

1

12

day(k)

1

102+n

102+n

uchar

1

31

hour(k)

1

103+n

103+n

uchar

1

23

minute(k)

1

104+n

104+n

uchar

1

59

secs(k)

1

105+n

105+n

uchar

1

59

ticks(k)

2

106+n

107+n

uint16

1

999

byte_loc(k)

4

108+n

111+n

uint32

1

1066

byte_length(k)

4

112+n

115+n

uint32

1

30000000

write_length(k)

4

116+n

119+n

uint32

1

60000

sample_rate(k)

4

120+n

123+n

uint32

1

200000

gain(k)

1

124+n

124+n

uint8

1

1

padding

7

125+n

131+n

uchar

7

0000000

SUBTOTAL

 

32+n

100

131+n

 

 

 

Data Chunk

Data Chunk

dSubchunkID

4

132+n

135+n

uchar

4

“data”

dSubchunkSize

4

136+n

137+n

uint32

1

datasize

DATA

 

138+n

 

 

 

 

 

For additional information see comments in rdxwavhd.m, wrxwavhd.m, and initdata.m in Triton.  

 

For typical full HARP XWAV files, file size will be 900,001,068 bytes or 30 raw files (n) 30,000,000 bytes/rawfiles & 1068 byte header.