Thank you Sean, that did indeed the trick and my files play nicely now! Do you expect to add this WAV header detection (and skipping) in a future release or do you restrict it to PCM (and user code must skip)?
On Fri, Sep 3, 2021 at 8:05 AM Sean Greenslade <s...@seangreenslade.com> wrote: > 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 > >
