[FFmpeg-user] Transcoding wave to ape

[Carl Eugen Hoyos]

2018-01-08 20:03 GMT+01:00 JD <jd1008 at gmail.com>:
> Used
>
> $ ffmpeg --version
> ffmpeg version N-88150-gae100046ca-static https://johnvansickle.com/ffmpeg/
> Copyright (c) 2000-2017 the FFmpeg developers
>   built with gcc 6.4.0 (Debian 6.4.0-8) 20171010
>   configuration: --enable-gpl --enable-version3 --enable-static
> --disable-debug --disable-ffplay --disable-indev=sndio
> --disable-outdev=sndio --cc=gcc-6 --enable-fontconfig --enable-frei0r
> --enable-gnutls --enable-gray --enable-libfribidi --enable-libass
> --enable-libvmaf --enable-libfreetype --enable-libmp3lame
> --enable-libopencore-amrnb --enable-libopencore-amrwb --enable-libopenjpeg
> --enable-librubberband --enable-librtmp --enable-libsoxr --enable-libspeex
> --enable-libvorbis --enable-libopus --enable-libtheora --enable-libvidstab
> --enable-libvo-amrwbenc --enable-libvpx --enable-libwebp --enable-libx264
> --enable-libx265 --enable-libxvid --enable-libzimg
>   libavutil      56.  0.100 / 56.  0.100
>   libavcodec     58.  0.100 / 58.  0.100
>   libavformat    58.  0.100 / 58.  0.100
>   libavdevice    58.  0.100 / 58.  0.100
>   libavfilter     7.  0.100 /  7.  0.100
>   libswscale      5.  0.100 /  5.  0.100
>   libswresample   3.  0.100 /  3.  0.100
>   libpostproc    55.  0.100 / 55.  0.100
>
> to transcode 2 mp4 files downloaded from youtube, to wav.
> All went well - the wave files sounded just as good as the YT mp4 versions.
>
> Then I installed
> mac-libs-4.11-3.u4b5
> mac-4.11-3.u4b5
> mac-devel-4.11-3.u4b5
>
> and converted the 2  .wav files to ape using the command line
>
>
> mac file_1.wav  file_1.ape -c5000
>
> and it exited with Success.
>
> However, playing the two files, I only hear white noise.

How did you test?

Did you try to decode the ape file with mac?

Carl Eugen