7.1 WAV
Eight-channel PCM WAV with a header that names each speaker, as audio workstations export.
How it should play
What a broken player shows
What goes wrong
The speaker map is ignored: channels play from the wrong speakers.
The file
- Container
- WAV, 6 s
- Size
- 4.6 MB
- Audio
- 16-bit PCM, 8 channels, 48,000 Hz
- Expected
- plays correctly in any player
How it was verified
Built by the testsrc generator (gen v0.2) and verified with FFmpeg 7.1.5-0+deb13u1 and GStreamer 1.26.2 in snapshot 2026-11-02, before it was published: the file has the property this page describes, and decoding it gives the expected result.
With a token: the file, how exactly it was built, the full fact sheet, and the expected result the checker judges a player against.
Use it
# the public facts curl https://testsrc.com/v1/cases/edge/wav-7.1-extensible.wav # the full fact sheet and the file, with your token curl -H "Authorization: Bearer $TESTSRC_TOKEN" \ https://testsrc.com/v1/cases/edge/wav-7.1-extensible.wav/facts curl -H "Authorization: Bearer $TESTSRC_TOKEN" -o wav-7.1-extensible.wav \ https://testsrc.com/v1/files/edge/wav-7.1-extensible.wav # play it through your player and check what it showed testsrc run --player libvlc edge/wav-7.1-extensible.wav
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