bbc / react-transcript-editor

A React component to make correcting automated transcriptions of audio and video easier and faster. By BBC News Labs. - Work in progress

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Demo doesn't seem to support WAV files

alexandrebrilhante opened this issue · comments

Demo doesn't seem able to load and play local WAV files but works fine for MP3 and MP4.

Desktop:

  • OS: Windows
  • Browser Chrome
  • Version 84

👋 @brilhana
have you tried to double check if that wav file plays in chrome? Eg By dropping it into a new tab.

Chrome won't play the file. The controls are visible but the file won't play but it sounds like bug on Chome's side: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=83323

What about Firefox?

Firefox won't load it.

Do you happen to know the origin of your wav file - which system created it, how many channels in it, is it PCM audio or another encoder, sample rate etc?

If it’s possible to share the audio somewhere we might be able to help diagnose the reason it won’t load.

Also, the chrome bug report you linked to is quite old (it was for version 13, we’re up at version 80+ now).

Unfortunately there's no way to look at the metadata for the WAV file so I'll close this issue. I converted the WAV to MP3 as a workaround.