Read files with "illegal" header

[GGDRriedel]

I have files that contain traces that are longer than the maximum possible trace length of 2 byte long int that is supposed to be defined in the binary header.

I know the data is there, the files are huge, 12 channels of 5 minutes traces each.

However, I can't seem to find a way to read them "agnostically"

Is there a way? Ignore_geometry=True and strict=False when reading don't seem to do anything.

My only last option is probably to write some own reading routines converting directly from the binary data, however, i would like to not do that.

Any tip would be appreciated

[yonathanamir]

Hi, I've encountered the same issue and resorted to parsing the binary data while ignoring the SEGY headers. It's an unfortunate last reasort, but it was the only thing I've found working.