[PD] readanysf~ error

[august]

It may take a little while for Burkhard to update his stuff.  I have a
feeling he is busy now with work, and also with adding webm and other
features to gmerlin_avdec.

How about compiling a new readanysf~  for Mac?  Do you still have it
set up to do it (is it just a matter of putting in the new code)?  Do
you have a build system for putting it all together?   

-a

> Any idea when this will be released?  I can update the Fink package  
> then.
>
> .hc
>
> On Jul 3, 2010, at 5:50 AM, august wrote:
>
>>
>> okay,
>>
>> 	This error should no longer occur in the next release of
>> 	gavl/gmerlin_avdecode.
>>
>> 	-august.
>>
>>> Hi August,
>>>
>>> thanks for your quick reply and sorry for my slow one ;-) The short
>>> answer is that cleaning up the headers of the soundfiles by re- 
>>> encoding
>>> with sndfile-convert did the trick. Celine, the student I am working
>>> with, promised to write you a bit later with more details.
>>>
>>> Best!
>>> Derek
>>>
>>> On 6/15/10 5:31 PM, august wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Derek,
>>>>
>>>> 	Are you using MacOS X?   What version of readanysf~?  What version
>>>> 	of gavl and gmerlin_avdec are packaged with it/used with it?
>>>>
>>>> 	I don't suspect it is the soundfile itself, but just in case, can  
>>>> you
>>>> 	put an example online for me.   This is going to be a tough bug to
>>>> 	find, unless you see some sort of regularity in how the sound turns
>>>> 	to noise for you and can report that to me?
>>>>
>>>> 	can you make a simple patch that isolates the bug?
>>>>
>>>> 	Also, when the sound goes to noise, is it just that one particular
>>>> 	soundfile that is used in readanysf or is it PD's entire output.   
>>>> In
>>>> 	other words, when you hear noise, can you also hear the other
>>>> 	readanysf's playing....or can you also make a simple osc~ and  
>>>> hear it
>>>> 	play correctly?
>>>>
>>>> 	The "Current file is either invalid or an unsupported codec."  
>>>> warning
>>>> 	can also come if you send "play" to the readanysf object without it
>>>> 	having a file loaded.   I assume this is what is happening.
>>>>
>>>> 	-a.
>>>>
>>>>> Hello August, list....
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm helping a student's installation, and we have created a patch 
>>>>> which
>>>>> uses 24 instances of readanysf~ to read from 24 different  
>>>>> soundfiles
>>>>> between 15min and one hour in length. All sound files are mono,  
>>>>> 16 bit,
>>>>> 44.1KHz WAV_PCM format.
>>>>>
>>>>> The problem is that, after a length of time, the readanysf~ objects
>>>>> output noise rather than the soundfile. It is not the result of any
>>>>> single soundfile, and many or all of the readanysf~ objects can be
>>>>> affected by this simultaneously.
>>>>>
>>>>> I have attached the abstraction in question. The object is  
>>>>> instantiated
>>>>> as [readanysf~ 1], in other words the block size and and buffer  
>>>>> size are
>>>>> defaults.
>>>>>
>>>>> Sample terminal output is as follows while the patch is running:
>>>>>
>>>>> Created new readanysf~ with 1 channels and internal buffer of 24  
>>>>> * 64 = 1536
>>>>> Current file is either invalid or an unsupported codec.
>>>>> Current file is either invalid or an unsupported codec.
>>>>> Current file is either invalid or an unsupported codec.
>>>>> Current file is either invalid or an unsupported codec.
>>>>> Current file is either invalid or an unsupported codec.
>>>>> Current file is either invalid or an unsupported codec.
>>>>> Current file is either invalid or an unsupported codec.
>>>>>
>>>>> Opening each soundfile individually with readanysf~ and sending  
>>>>> "play"
>>>>> and "pause" messages reports no errors whatsoever, however.
>>>>>
>>>>> I have sndfile-info data for all of the soundfiles. The only
>>>>> irregularity I see in this is one file which reports:
>>>>>
>>>>>   Unknown chunk marker at position 6087587. Resynching.
>>>>>
>>>>> Besides that, most of the files report something like this:
>>>>>
>>>>> File : F_DOK6.wav
>>>>> Length : 146725772
>>>>> RIFF : 146725764
>>>>> WAVE
>>>>> bext : 602
>>>>> fmt  : 16
>>>>>   Format        : 0x1 =>  WAVE_FORMAT_PCM
>>>>>   Channels      : 1
>>>>>   Sample Rate   : 44100
>>>>>   Block Align   : 2
>>>>>   Bit Width     : 16
>>>>>   Bytes/sec     : 88200
>>>>> *** minf : 16 (unknown marker)
>>>>> *** elm1 : 7506 (unknown marker)
>>>>> data : 140114520
>>>>> *** regn : 92 (unknown marker)
>>>>> *** umid : 24 (unknown marker)
>>>>> *** DGDA : 6602919 (unknown marker)
>>>>> End
>>>>>
>>>>> ----------------------------------------
>>>>> Sample Rate : 44100
>>>>> Frames      : 70057260
>>>>> Channels    : 1
>>>>> Format      : 0x00010002
>>>>> Sections    : 1
>>>>> Seekable    : TRUE
>>>>> Duration    : 00:26:28.600
>>>>> Signal Max  : 11627 (-9.00 dB)
>>>>>
>>>>> Someone suggested the noisy output may be the result of a buffer
>>>>> problem, but I am not sure who I could verify or correct this.
>>>>>
>>>>> I checked with "top" while the noise was happening and saw no  
>>>>> evidence
>>>>> that Pd was using any more memory than usual, and the CPU meter  
>>>>> reported
>>>>> 30%.
>>>>>
>>>>> Hardware is an Intel Mac Mini, software is Pd-Extended 0.41.4.
>>>>>
>>>>> Any suggestions or other diagnostics I could run are appreciated.
>>>>>
>>>>> Best!
>>>>> Derek
>>