Re: [Swftools-common] wav2swf

[John Francis Lee]

Chris Pugh wrote:
> Hi John,
>
> Sounds like your original .wav file is corrupt in some way.  Is it?
> Does it play normally otherwise?  If so, in what?  Which program
> was used to create it, and what codec format has been used?

I don't know that it was 'corrupt', it did play in audacity and in totem 
movie player, which is what pops up if I double clicked the file on my 
ubuntu machine, but it would not play well in audacious... I used the 
gnome sound recorder to create it, choosing simply '.wav' format. I had 
thought that the gnome sound recorder was just a gui for sox, but it is 
not...

> See,
>
>   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WAV
>
> for a confusing array!

I've spared myself more confusion thus far... perhaps I'll have a look 
at this point.

> How about posting the offending audio file for testing?

I had done so... but no point now that I've found my problem...

> On another tack entirely, why convert the wav to swf
> in the first place?

I wanted to have an .swf file play when I clicked on an imagemap, and 
that's what happens, now that I'm able to use wav2awf to make an .swf 
from the .wav... but my browser, firefox, goes to a blank page when it 
does so... which defeats my original purpose.

> Finally, if you don't already use it, Sox,
>
>    http://sox.sourceforge.net/
>
> is one of the best audio manipulation suites around.
> It may help you considerably.

Yes. I had thought that sox was the undergirding of gnome sound recorder 
but it is not. In fact sox was not even installed on my system!

After I installed sox I played the offending .wav file using sox and, 
after playing the file, sox commented that the file was missing an EOF.

So I used sox to make another .wav file from the original... and sox 
supplied the missing EOF... and wav2swf no longer choked but simply told 
me that I had not compiled it with streaming .mp3 support... which I 
then did... and now wav2swf performs just as advertised and creates the 
.swf! But it doesn't play as I imagined it would... in the "backgound" 
with the page with the imagemap remaining in view.

> Regards,
>
>
> Chris.

So thanks for the help!

Do you have any idea how I might accomplish my original aim, which is to 
have the page with the imagemap remain while the .wav /.mp3 /.swf 
/.whatever file plays when clicked?

I also had not realized that you must explicitly include the address of 
the list when replying to a posting... so now a I have done so.

> > 2009/7/18 John Francis Lee <address@hidden>:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I'm trying to make an .swf file from a .wav file so that I can click on a
> > face in a photo with an associated imagemap and hear the contents of the
> > .wav file.
> >
> > But when I type.
> >
> >  address@hidden:$ wav2swf -o welcome-adiphong.swf welcome-adiphong.wav
> >  wav_read: warning - short file (2146398192 bytes missing)
> >  Out of memory (2147418112 bytes needed)FATAL   Error reading
> > welcome-adiphong.wav
> >
> > The man page doesn't give much guidance and the only thing I find at the
> > wiki is the man page. Going to the home page itself is uninformative as
> > there are no further links from there.
> >
> > Any help appreciated.
> >
> > --
> > John Francis Lee
> > 1025/37 Thanon Jet Yod
> > Mueang Chiangrai 57000
> > Thailand


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