Issue with wavenc and format setting

[Dr. Peter G. Baum]

On 09/30/2014 08:50 AM, Sebastian Dröge wrote:
 >> if I do the same but a forced caps
 >>
 >> gst-launch-1.0 filesrc location=~/gst/master/tests/files/stereol.wav !
 >> wavparse ! wavenc ! audio/x-wav ! filesink location=q2.wav
 >>
 >> soxi tells me
 >> Duration       : 06:45:47.14 = 536854528 samples ~ 1.82604e+06 CDDA 
sectors
 >>
 >> q2.wav is 44 bytes longer than q1.wav.
 >> Obviously instead of rewriting the wav header at offset 0 it is appended
 >> to the file.
 >>
 >> Any idea, where the problem could be?
 >
 > Check the debug logs, especially what happens when wavenc sends the
 > SEGMENT event for rewriting the headers at the beginning. Something
 > seems to go wrong there, and wavenc doesn't notice that something goes
 > wrong and just writes to the end.

The log seems innocent enough.

Peter

0:00:00.046348476  2976       0xf65320 LOG                   wavenc 
gstwavenc.c:1045:gst_wavenc_chain:<wavenc0> pushing 6336 bytes raw 
audio, ts=0:00:01.280000000
0:00:00.046358197  2976       0xf65320 WARN                  wavenc 
gstwavenc.c:1057:gst_wavenc_chain:<wavenc0> Could not reorder channels
0:00:00.046388098  2976       0xf65320 DEBUG                 wavenc 
gstwavenc.c:945:gst_wavenc_event:<wavenc0> got EOS
0:00:00.046395038  2976       0xf65320 DEBUG                 wavenc 
gstwavenc.c:820:gst_wavenc_write_toc:<wavenc0> number of cue entries: 1
0:00:00.046407870  2976       0xf65320 INFO                  wavenc 
gstwavenc.c:666:gst_wavenc_parse_labl:<wavenc0> no title tag for entry: 
66696673
0:00:00.046418131  2976       0xf65320 DEBUG                 wavenc 
gstwavenc.c:707:gst_wavenc_parse_note:<wavenc0> got note: 'DATE
632D6C36

'
0:00:00.046462593  2976       0xf65320 DEBUG                 wavenc 
gstwavenc.c:590:gst_wavenc_write_tags:<wavenc0> writing tags
0:00:00.046482692  2976       0xf65320 INFO               GST_EVENT 
gstevent.c:759:gst_event_new_segment: creating segment event bytes 
segment start=0, offset=0, stop=-1, rate=1.000000, 
applied_rate=1.000000, flags=0x00, time=0, base=0, position 0, duration -1
0:00:00.046502140  2976       0xf65320 DEBUG                 wavenc 
gstwavenc.c:418:gst_wavenc_push_header:<wavenc0> writing header, 
meta_size=2074, audio_size=232128
0:00:00.046509724  2976       0xf65320 DEBUG                 wavenc 
gstwavenc.c:366:gst_wavenc_create_header_buf:<wavenc0> Header size: 44
0:00:00.046557525  2976       0xf65320 INFO                    task 
gsttask.c:301:gst_task_func:<wavparse0:sink> Task going to paused
Got EOS from element "pipeline0".
Execution ended after 0:00:00.001728905
Setting pipeline to PAUSED ...
0:00:00.046600039  2976       0xe4af50 INFO              GST_STATES 
gstbin.c:2230:gst_bin_element_set_state:<filesink0> current PLAYING 
pending VOID_PENDING, desired next PAUSED