Fixing .wav files ripped from APB .pck file by Rapid99 at 5:05 PM EDT on July 24, 2011

Hello my friends!
Hopefully you can help me with this issue that has been plaguing me for a few weeks >.> I've asked around at a few places, and my questions when mostly ignored...

I'm trying to rip audio from the game APB. The audio was contained in .pck files, which I successfully ripped using NovaSoft. The audio files themselves are .wavs

The files cannot be played, however, and from what I understand they must be converted with ww2ogg.

My problem: When I try to convert the files with ww2ogg, it gives me a parse error. Here is my input for ww2ogg, and the resulting error.

ww2ogg SFX01.wav -o SFX01.ogg --full-setup
Input: SFX01.wav
Parse error: expected fmt, vorb, data chunks

I'm a bit stumped on what to do v.v It just gives me that parse error and then nothing happens. Every file (all 935 of them) does the same thing, which I found out when I tried to do a batch conversion of them all.

Any help at all is greatly appreciated :]

by hcs at 9:27 PM EDT on July 24, 2011

All I can think is that you extracted the file wrong, or you're looking at a different file than they were looking at here. That file, when you extract the RIFFs with Nova or whatever, gives files that work with ww2ogg.

It looks like the file you sent has been mangled somehow, I see a few telltales of vorbis, but no vorb chunk. I don't know if this is a new wwise vorbis format (I wouldn't put it past them) or just something gone wrong with your extractor. I'll try to add support for these to ww2ogg.

Can you think of any reason why your files would be different from those other ones?

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Ok, I've added support to ww2ogg 0.13 for this. Let me know if it works on the other files. I still have a suspicion that whatever you used to extract the RIFF somehow decided to merge the vorb with the fmt chunk, which is bad mojo indeed.

edited 10:09 PM EDT July 24, 2011

by Rapid99 at 12:13 AM EDT on July 25, 2011

You're a boss, hcs. Thank you immensely! xD

I tried it again, got the codebook identifiers error, but the file didn't give me the fmt error. Same with 3 other random files from the 935 I ripped. Tried it again, without --full-setup, and it worked.

Thanks again! <3

Edit: Now I just have to find something to convert all of these files in a batch to .mp3, or .wav so I can actually use them in Sony vegas xD

edited 12:35 AM EDT July 25, 2011

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