Rip to FLAC won't play back

[tomleonard]

I'm using vlc0.8.6d on xp home. When I rip an audio cd track to flac, I get what appears to be a good file, but it won't play in vlc. My streaming parameters are:

:sout=#transcode{acodec=flac,ab=192,channels=2}:duplicate{dst=std{access=file,mux=ogg,dst="C:\Documents and Settings\Tom\Desktop\Test.flac"}}

When I try to play the file back I get a repeating error: flacdec error: This stream uses too many audio channels

Here is the log data.

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main debug: adding playlist item `C:\Documents and Settings\Tom\Desktop\Test.flac' ( C:\Documents and Settings\Tom\Desktop\Test.flac ) main debug: creating new input thread main debug: waiting for thread completion main debug: drive letter C: found in source main debug: `C:\Documents and Settings\Tom\Desktop\Test.flac' gives access `' demux `' path `C:\Documents and Settings\Tom\Desktop\Test.flac' main debug: creating demux: access='' demux='' path='C:\Documents and Settings\Tom\Desktop\Test.flac' main debug: looking for access_demux module: 0 candidates main warning: no access_demux module matched "any" main debug: creating access '' path='C:\Documents and Settings\Tom\Desktop\Test.flac' main debug: looking for access2 module: 4 candidates vcd debug: trying .cue file: C:\Documents and Settings\Tom\Desktop\Test.cue vcd debug: could not find .cue file access_file debug: opening file `C:\Documents and Settings\Tom\Desktop\Test.flac' main debug: using access2 module "access_file" main debug: pre-buffering... main debug: received first data for our buffer main debug: pre-buffering done 1408981 bytes in 0s - 232503 kbytes/s main debug: creating demux: access='' demux='' path='C:\Documents and Settings\Tom\Desktop\Test.flac' main debug: looking for demux2 module: 44 candidates main debug: thread 4244 (input) created at priority 1 (input/input.c:265) main debug: using demux2 module "ogg" main debug: looking for a subtitle file in C:\Documents and Settings\Tom\Desktop\ main debug: `C:\Documents and Settings\Tom\Desktop\Test.flac' successfully opened ogg debug: found FLAC header main debug: selecting program id=0 main debug: looking for decoder module: 26 candidates main debug: using decoder module "flacdec" main debug: thread 4488 (decoder) created at priority 2 (input/decoder.c:159) ogg debug: beginning of a group of logical streams ogg debug: FLAC STREAMINFO metadata too short main debug: removing module "flacdec" main debug: thread times: real 0m0.015625s, kernel 0m0.000000s, user 0m0.000000s main debug: thread 4488 joined (input/decoder.c:191) main debug: killing decoder fourcc `flac', 0 PES in FIFO main debug: looking for decoder module: 26 candidates main debug: using decoder module "flacdec" main debug: thread 4488 (decoder) created at priority 2 (input/decoder.c:159) flacdec debug: decode STREAMINFO flacdec debug: STREAMINFO decoded flacdec error: This stream uses too many audio channels flacdec debug: decode STREAMINFO flacdec debug: STREAMINFO decoded flacdec error: This stream uses too many audio channels . . repeats until end of input .

I get the same error if I use "raw" encapsulation.

What am I doing wrong?

Thanks,

Tom

[VLC_help]

ogg debug: FLAC STREAMINFO metadata too short
does it help if you recode those file using another flac encoder?

[tomleonard]

I can rip and encode using CDex and play the resulting flac file in vlc just fine. The only error I see is that about 20 initial buffers are lost in the playback. I am using CDex version 1.70 beta 2, and the in_flac.dll supplied with the program. The CDex version is dated June, 2006, so the flac encoder can't be newer than 1.1.2 .

Tom

[funman]

libflac encoder is broken in VLC, you should try ffmpeg flac encoder, i don't remember the exact syntax, it must be something like adding ,aenc=ffmpeg,acodec=flac