need help transcoding audio only files

[Tim-Philipp Müller]

On Thu, 2012-06-28 at 09:25 -0700, Peter Quiring wrote:

Hi Peter,

> If I transcode WMV to OGG it works.
> But if I try to transcode MP3 to WAV it fails.
> 
> ERROR : encodebin says : Couldn't create encoder for format audio/x-wav
> In my encoding profile I don't use a container, only an audio profile that

Have you tried specifying audio/x-wav as container profile?

Despite the name, wavenc is categorised as a muxer according to
gst-inspect-0.10 wavenc:

Factory Details:
  Long name:	WAV audio muxer
  Class:	Codec/Muxer/Audio
  ...
Plugin Details:
  Name:			wavenc
  Description:		Encode raw audio into WAV
 

Cheers
 -Tim