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[renojim]

I don't have a Roku 4 (yet) so I don't know if the latest v7 build has the same bug, but on my Roku 3 running v7.0 build 8637 if you try to create an roAudioResource with a bad file it causes a crash and reboot. The following code will do the trick:

ba = CreateObject("roByteArray")
ba[0] = 0
ba.WriteFile("tmp:/sound.wav")
ar = CreateObject("roAudioResource","tmp:/sound.wav") ' <- crash and burn

I stumbled upon this when I was trying to play a sound effect that I thought was a regular WAV file, but it turns out it was a WAV file that used an MP3 codec. I didn't even know that was possible.

Older versions of the firmware (< 7.0) don't have the same issue.

-JT

[destruk]

It's not possible. Whatever file you used had mp3 with the wrong extension.
Anyway, good tip here to avoid a crash, thanks.

[RokuMarkn]

While it's uncommon, it's possible for WAV files to contain compressed audio such as MP3. The FormatTag field in the WAV header specifies the type of audio encoding.

I've filed a bug report for the crash.

--Mark

[destruk]

Learn something new every day I guess -- now anything can be a wav file - great.

[renojim]

Yeah, it definitely had a WAV header. That's why I was surprised it didn't play/crashed. It's only after I looked at it more closely that I noticed the format wasn't PCM as expected (and to be honest, I thought the only option for WAVs); it was "MPEG Audio".

-JT