Came across another error that might help! Using flac -t I get: 251_A.wav: *** Got error code 0:FLAC__STREAM_DECODER_ERROR_STATUS_LOST_SYNC 251_A.wav: *** Got error code 0:FLAC__STREAM_DECODER_ERROR_STATUS_LOST_SYNC
Thanks, Matthew On Feb 6, 2008 3:19 AM, Matthew Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thank you for the reply! I know that my system can play flac files, I've > played others I've managed to convert using both of those programs. I'm > only running into difficulty when it comes to these large WAV files. By > "Does not work" I mean that they do not play, and instead I receive the > errors I mentioned in my original post. I wasn't actually intending to use > wavsplit to split the flac files, it was just something I had during some > testing for how to split these files. I'm actually going to be splitting > during the conversion since the flac tool supports specifying time marks. > > Is there something that could be wrong with the WAV files that prevent > them from being able to convert to FLAC? Is there someway I can test the > integrity of the WAV files? > > Thanks again in advance, > Matthew > > > On Feb 5, 2008 6:07 PM, Brian Willoughby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Matthew, > > > > I don't think I can answer your entire question, but I will list a > > few pieces of information. > > > > 1) I regularly convert very large AIFF files, up to 4 GB, using > > flac. I sometimes work with WAV, and that seems to work, too. On my > > Mac, I can play flac files just fine in Play.app, VLC, and my own > > software. > > > > 2) What do you mean the flac "files do not work"? You mean they > > don't play? They will only play from software with full support for > > the flac format, which means many popular applications will not work. > > > > 3) I have not heard of "flac123" - perhaps this program is out of > > date or is missing support. Maybe the author(s) of flac123 will > > comment. > > > > 4) Those warning mean that your Broadcast Wave File (BWF) is being > > converted to standard audio flac, without any of the metadata from > > the BWF. You'll need to use --keep-foreign-metadata if there is any > > importance to having the original BWF restored later. However, if > > all you need is the audio and none of the other information, then you > > can safely ignore these warnings. FLAC always preserves all of the > > audio losslessly, you only ever have to worry about losing non-audio > > data. > > > > 5) You can only split a flac file if your splitting program > > understands the format. You should learn the FLAC library and see > > what kind of support it has for breaking a stream. If you use other > > tools to split the file without knowledge of the FLAC format, you > > will lose data. In other words, you must develop a new program, > > maybe called "flacsplit," to do this, because wavsplit will not work > > on FLAC (unless they parse the FLAC format correctly as well as WAV). > > > > I hope some of this information helps. > > > > Brian Willoughby > > Sound Consulting > > > > > > On Feb 5, 2008, at 16:54, Matthew Davis wrote: > > I'm attempting to convert fairly large WAV files (90 - 800 MB each) > > using flac but the files do not work after the encoding. (The play > > fine in wav format) > > > > Command I'm using: > > > > flac --verify -8 file.wav > > > > Attempting to run the file with either flac123 or the default player > > for Ubuntu (Movie Player?) results in the extremely terse messages: > > Default Player: "An Error Occurred: Could Not Decode Stream" > > flac123: "error handler called!" <- repeated over and over and over > > > > There are no errors during the encoding, though there are some > > warnings. Here is the output: > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ flac -f -8 --verify 10_A.wav > > > > 10_A.wav: WARNING: skipping unknown sub-chunk 'bext' (use --keep- > > foreign-metadata to keep) > > 10_A.wav: WARNING: legacy WAVE file has format type 1 but bits-per- > > sample=24 > > 10_A.wav: WARNING: skipping unknown sub-chunk 'minf' (use --keep- > > foreign-metadata to keep) > > 10_A.wav: WARNING: skipping unknown sub-chunk 'elm1' (use --keep- > > foreign-metadata to keep) > > 10_A.wav: 100% complete, ratio=0.62410_A.wav: WARNING: skipping > > unknown sub-chunk 'regn' (use --keep-foreign-metadata to keep) > > 10_A.wav: WARNING: skipping unknown sub-chunk 'ovwf' (use --keep- > > foreign-metadata to keep) > > 10_A.wav: WARNING: skipping unknown sub-chunk 'umid' (use --keep- > > foreign-metadata to keep) > > 10_A.wav: Verify OK, wrote 168060055 bytes, ratio=0.624 > > > > > > As a final random test, I attempted to split one of the wav files (my > > ultimate goal is split flac files) using wavsplit. That resulted in > > the following output/error. > > > > Channels: 1 > > Samplerate: 96000Hz > > Samplebits: 24 > > Databytes: 269503836 > > > > Split Hours Mins Seconds Bytes % > > Bad file format > > > > >
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