diff --git a/servers/qemuserver/server.go b/servers/qemuserver/server.go
index 798b5e6..f5f0bf8 100644
--- a/servers/qemuserver/server.go
+++ b/servers/qemuserver/server.go
@@ -125,6 +125,16 @@ func (s *Server) Run() error {
 }
 
 func (s *Server) startCapture() {
+	const waveHeaderSize = 16
+	waveHeader := &audiodriver.WavHeader{
+		Size:          waveHeaderSize,
+		AudioFormat:   1,
+		NumChannels:   2,
+		SampleRate:    44100,
+		BlockAlign:    4,
+		BitsPerSample: 16,
+	}
+
 	go func() {
 		f, err := os.Open(s.options.AudioPipe)
 		if err != nil {
@@ -134,16 +144,13 @@ func (s *Server) startCapture() {
 
 		logrus.Debug("start reading from fifo")
 
-		waveHeader, err := audiodriver.NewHeader(f)
-		if err != nil {
-			logrus.Fatal(err)
-		}
-		logrus.Debug(waveHeader)
 		s.audioHeader <- waveHeader
 		close(s.audioHeader) // only once
 
-		// skip riff data chunk ID and size, 8 bytes
-		var _dataChunkHeader [audiodriver.DataChunkIDSize + audiodriver.DataChunkSizeSize]byte
+		// skip to pcm data, for 44 bytes.
+		var _dataChunkHeader [audiodriver.FmtHeaderOffset +
+			audiodriver.FmtHeaderIDSize + audiodriver.FmtHeaderChunkSizeSize + waveHeaderSize +
+			audiodriver.DataChunkIDSize + audiodriver.DataChunkSizeSize]byte
 		if _, err := f.Read(_dataChunkHeader[:]); err != nil {
 			logrus.Fatal(err)
 		}