[FFmpeg-user] EAC3 codec not supported in WAVE

[Carl Eugen Hoyos]

Tarun singhal <tsinghal18 <at> gmail.com> writes:

> I understand that WAV is uncompressed audio format 
> and typically PCM is used as audio codec.

(typically?)

> But I was trying this command and stumble upon following error-

> ffmpeg -i aud_track1.mp4 -acodec eac3 out.wav

> So my question is  - Is this issue limitation of 
> FFmpeg or limitation of WAV container itself.

It is not a limitation of the wav container but of 
Dolby and Microsoft not defining a twocc or a GUID 
(afaik).

Carl Eugen