Skip to content

Commit

Permalink
edit move details of known issues from Changelog to README
Browse files Browse the repository at this point in the history
  • Loading branch information
AlisterH committed Apr 16, 2019
1 parent 125250d commit b4bc5b8
Show file tree
Hide file tree
Showing 2 changed files with 6 additions and 1 deletion.
3 changes: 2 additions & 1 deletion Changelog
Original file line number Diff line number Diff line change
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
GWC Changelog
KNOWN ISSUE: GWC fails to open wav files with metadata, such as those created by recent versions of ffmpeg. GWC will produce an error like this: "Failed to open /root/whistle.wav, 'Error : Cannot open file in read/write mode due to string data in header.'". Libsndfile does not support RDWR mode for these files. If you are creating them using ffmpeg try adding "-flags bitexact" into your command line (although this will reduce ffmpeg's performance), or writing to a different libsndfile supported format such as .au or .aiff. A workaround for existing files is to open and save the file in mhwaveedit, but since you should keep your original recording as a backup anyway, I suggest either converting to a different format using sndfile-convert or ffmpeg, or using `SimplifyWave` from waveutils or `shntool strip` to make a copy of the file with a clean header.

KNOWN ISSUE: GWC fails to open wav files with metadata; refer to the README for details.

0.22-04
April 16, 2019
Expand Down
4 changes: 4 additions & 0 deletions README
Original file line number Diff line number Diff line change
Expand Up @@ -46,6 +46,10 @@ Instructions for use:

Check out the help documentation included in this distribution and available from the help menu in GWC.

Known Issues:
-------------
GWC fails to open wav files with metadata, such as those created by recent versions of ffmpeg. GWC will produce an error like this: "Failed to open /root/whistle.wav, 'Error : Cannot open file in read/write mode due to string data in header.'". Libsndfile does not support RDWR mode for these files. If you are creating them using ffmpeg try adding "-flags bitexact" into your command line (although this will reduce ffmpeg's performance), or writing to a different libsndfile supported format such as .au or .aiff. A workaround for existing files is to open and save the file in mhwaveedit, but since you should keep your original recording as a backup anyway, I suggest either converting to a different format using sndfile-convert or ffmpeg, or using `SimplifyWave` from waveutils or `shntool strip` to make a copy of the file with a clean header.

Background:
-----------

Expand Down

0 comments on commit b4bc5b8

Please sign in to comment.