WavEncoder v1.0 ~ Copyright ©2015 Pawlygon.

* WavEncoder is merely a wrapper for FFmpeg which can be used to convert an audio track to a WAV file.
* Launch WavEncoder.exe and click 'Choose a file' (Alt + C) to select the audio/video file to be converted.
* Select an appropriate Sample Rate.
* Then, select the number of audio channels for your file.
* Choose an appropriate PCM value or just use the standard "pcm_s16le" value.
* Under 'Other Options', you may choose to retain the metadata or purge it altogether.  You can extract a particular portion of the audio track if you wish using the '-ss' and '-t' parameters. You can also map channels if you want to switch stereo channels or retain only one of the channels.  [For help see https://ffmpeg.org/documentation.html]
* Next, click 'Generate commandline' (Alt + G) to generate the default commandline for conversion.
* You may make any necessary changes to the commandline if you wish. [For help see https://ffmpeg.org/documentation.html]
* Finally, click 'Start Processing' (Alt + S) to convert the file.
* FFmpeg starts the conversion as you can see in the console window.
* To terminate the conversion process at any time, press Ctrl+C in the console window.
* To clear the commandline, click 'Clear'.
* After you've completed your task, you may quit WavEncoder by clicking 'Exit' or press Alt+E or Ctrl+Q.

Note: WavEncoder is portable.  It has been tested on Windows 7 and works flawlessly (so far).

Known Issues:
(1) WavEncoder is entirely dependent on the features of 'ffmpeg.exe' and newer versions of 'ffmpeg.exe' may have deprecated parameters or newer parameters specified by the developers. Thus these deprecated/new features are likely to break the functioning of WavEncoder.  The latest version of 'ffmpeg.exe' can be obtained here: http://ffmpeg.zeranoe.com/builds/win32/static/ffmpeg-latest-win32-static.7z
(2) WavEncoder overwrites the destination file by default.  So, make sure you do not have any identically named files in the destination folder.  We merely add the ".wav" extension to the existing filename to be on the safe side.  On the other hand, you can also change the filename in the commandline box before you start processing the file.
(3) Take care that you choose a proper combination of sample rates, audio channels, and PCM values.  Not all PCM values are applicable to the sample rates mentioned.  For instance, Blu-Ray streams may have a PCM value of pcm_s24le or pcm_s32le and a sample rate of 48000 Hz.

Copyright:
(1) FFmpeg is Copyright ©The FFmpeg developers.  FFmpeg is a trademark of Fabrice Bellard, originator of the FFmpeg project.  FFmpeg is licensed under the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL) version 2.1 or later.  See here for more information: https://ffmpeg.org/legal.html


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