Cavern Driver 1.5 no sound when playing E-AC-3 JOC file about cavern

[VoidXH]

PCM decoding is nearly done, it will be included in the Driver. There are problems with implementation (marked with a TODO) that break simultaneous playback of 2 AC-3 streams, but it will be fixed.

[dechamps]

You need to decode to 24 bit wav with drc_scale 0 using ffmpeg (under the same name).

I'm confused as to what you're asking me to do. My understanding is that ffmpeg doesn't support audio objects. If I decode the file using ffmpeg, I will lose the object information, which defeats the point of this exercise as I want to visualize and listen to the objects using Cavern. Did I misunderstand your suggestion?

[VoidXH]

You need the decoded 5.1 or 7.1 track as a WAV with the same name next to the source MKV, the objects are mixed from it. Currently Cavern doesn't decode the PCM part as FFmpeg does it better, but it will in the future. Complete remixing is handled automatically in Cavernize GUI, however. Currently this is the expected behavior, but will be changed in the future.

[VoidXH]

PCM decoding done, released.

[VoidXH]

Also .ac3 and .ec3.

[dechamps]

I'm a bit confused - where do I find the new version? Both the Cavern website and the GitHub releases page show the latest version is still 1.5. Should I build it from source?

[VoidXH]

You also need to look at the release date. Yeah, it's versioned poorly in beta.

[dechamps]

Ah. The version currently on the website seems to work, yes. I just spotted one small bug where seeking doesn't work after the file has finished playing, but it's benign. Thanks!