[FFmpeg-user] ffmpeg producing invalid wav headers when merging two wav files

[Jim McMaster]

We are using ffmpeg to merge two mono wav files into a single two-channel file.  When we do, we get a wav file that has an invalid header, and some of our other software cannot process it.    In particular, the AudioFormat at offset 20 has a value of ‘0700’ (little-endian) instead of ‘0100’.  The Subchunk2ID is ‘00006461’ instead of ‘74616461’ (“data”).  The Subchink2Size is a huge number (1937924468 or 0X73826174) which is much larger than the size of the audio file.

We are using the command:

/usr/bin/ffmpeg -ac 1 -ar 8000 -acodec pcm_s16le -f s16le -i  <inFile1>  -ac 1 -ar 8000 -acodec pcm_s16le -f s16le -i  <inFile2>  -filter_complex "[1:a][2:a] amerge=inputs=2[a]" -map "[a]" <outFile>

This is generated in Java, so I hope I got it right.

So, what are we doing wrong?  How do we get ffmpeg to generate a valid wav header?

Thank you.

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Jim McMaster
Senior Software Engineer

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