Hi - If you look at the two outputs below you'll see that newmessage.wav has some extra info embedded in it - possibly newmessage.wav is actually a BWF-format file? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadcast_Wave_Format Dan sndfile-info *.wav Version : libsndfile-1.0.19 ======================================== File : newmessage.wav Length : 23994 RIFF : 23986 WAVE fmt : 16 Format : 0x1 => WAVE_FORMAT_PCM Channels : 2 Sample Rate : 44100 Block Align : 4 Bit Width : 16 Bytes/sec : 176400 data : 23868 LIST : 74 INFO ISFT : Sonic Foundry Sound Forge 6.0 IENG : ICRD : 2005-05-16 End ---------------------------------------- Sample Rate : 44100 Frames : 5967 Channels : 2 Format : 0x00010002 Sections : 1 Seekable : TRUE Duration : 00:00:00.135 Signal Max : 32768 (0.00 dB) ======================================== File : voicemail.wav Length : 57536 RIFF : 57528 WAVE fmt : 16 Format : 0x1 => WAVE_FORMAT_PCM Channels : 1 Sample Rate : 44100 Block Align : 2 Bit Width : 16 Bytes/sec : 88200 data : 57492 End ---------------------------------------- Sample Rate : 44100 Frames : 28746 Channels : 1 Format : 0x00010002 Sections : 1 Seekable : TRUE Duration : 00:00:00.652 Signal Max : 32768 (0.00 dB) ======================================== Total Duration : 00:00:00.787 2009/8/23 Eugen Dedu <Eugen.Dedu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > Hi, > > I do not know much about audio. The "newmessage.wav" file from > http://git.gnome.org/cgit/ekiga/tree/sounds is strange because it is > correctly played by aplay, vlc plays it but not the same thing is heard, > and xmms does not play it all. Standard windows programs do not play it > either. Could someone tell me what's special with this file? > > Thanks, > -- > Eugen > _______________________________________________ > Linux-audio-user mailing list > Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user > -- http://www.mcld.co.uk _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
