On Sun, Aug 29, 2021 at 07:02:25PM +0200, mindfsck wrote: > or use 'vlc' or use any Video/Audio playback you have on your machine.Sigh, > I may just reach out for alternative APIs instead of trying to convince > people that this might be a bug in the simple API you provide. Apologies for leading you down a dead-end. I've taken a closer look at the code and found what the problem is. The pacat-simple.c example is expecting raw PCM sample data in the file. Since you're giving it a .WAV file, there is a metadata header at the beginning that it is trying to interpret as audio. Try inserting this line just above the /* Read some data ... */ line: read(STDIN_FILENO, buf, 44); // Discard the .WAV header --Sean
