BeSweet is unable to convert non-16-bit WAV as source

[LigH]

Loading 8-bit WAV, BeSweet crashes (maybe due to reading beyond the end of file?).

Loading 24-bit WAV, BeSweet assumes 16 bits and reads the packed format "interleaved", and therefore as noise instead of high-resolution audio.

DSPguru, will you once include at least a check for the sample resolution, and hopefully even a resolution dependent conversion to single float (as this shall be the native format inside BeSweet)?

[zulu]

just stumbled over the same problem.
i need to convert an 8bit 11khz mono wav to mp2 (including fps conversion).
besweet crashes. :(

[jsoto]

May be you can try wav20, a simple tool to change (adding zeroes or truncating) the number of bits in a wave file. Look in Audio tools in my sites.

jsoto

[zulu]

@jsoto:
i just tried your wav20 tool, but besweet still crashes :\

[jsoto]

Does the 16 bits file play in WMP or winamp?

jsoto

[zulu]

update:
it's not the fault of wav20.
it's not the wavs 8bit nature at all, besweet crashes because its mono.
so far i found out the following:
if i demux the audio stream makeing use of vdub-mod's wav converter, besweet behaves like this:
- wav demuxed only: besweet crashes
- wav converted to stereo: besweet starts transcoding to mp2 but quits after a few seconds
- wav converted to stereo, changed precision to 16bit and changed sampling rate to 48khz: besweet transcoding to mp2 succeeded.
so question is:
is there still a chance i can use besweet to do all the transcoding tasks including resampling and changing bit-depth,
or am i forced to use vdub-mod for these tasks and besweet for wav->mp2 transcoding only? how reliable is vdub-mods build-in converter?

zulu

[castellanos]

Hi.
We were discussing something similar here (http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?s=&threadid=88632), the problem is not the mono source, but yes the bit depth.
Greetings! ;)

[zulu]

hi,
i discovered that i was using an older besweet build (1.4).
updating to v1.5b29 solved the crashing issue.
but now i found out that -shibatch doesn't like my 11040khz wav.
ssrc.exe does neither (samplingrate not supported).

does anyone know a good commandline samplingrate/resolution converter supporting that samplingrate?
if not, i'm thinking about hacking together my own commandline wav demuxer with build-in samplingrate converter (based on vdub).