M.H. ten Berge wrote: > Dan S wrote: >> 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 >> >> >> > > But apart from the advanced metadata, there's a much more fundamental > difference: the first file listed above is stereo, the second is mono... The problem is that ring.wav (the same directory, http://git.gnome.org/cgit/ekiga/tree/sounds) is also stereo, same sample rate, and it works without problem. -- Eugen _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
