Sox command line to downsample Pcm to Flac Options

[andrewfg]

Can anyone please tell me the switches needed for downsampling hi-res Pcm (Std_In) to lo-res Flac (Std_Out)?

I am trying the following, but at 192000Hz neither the big nor little endian variety works.

CODE

sox.exe -q -t raw -s -b24 -c2 -r192000 -L - -t flac -C0 - rate 48000 => outputs distorted audio
sox.exe -q -t raw -s -b24 -c2 -r192000 -B - -t flac -C0 - rate 48000 => outputs white noise

Whereas (oddly enough) at 96000Hz the little endian works, but the big endian does not.

CODE

sox.exe -q -t raw -s -b24 -c2 -r96000 -L - -t flac -C0 - rate 48000 => works !!
sox.exe -q -t raw -s -b24 -c2 -r96000 -B - -t flac -C0 - rate 48000 => outputs white noise

Don't ask me why, but the fact that at 96000Hz an extra byte order flip makes a difference to the success rate, gives me a gut feeling that sox.exe is somehow hitting an internal timing issue or lack of CPU capacity (e.g. thread timing issue?).

[JJZolx]

Are the results (white noise, distorted audio, works) the result of streaming the audio to some particular player or of playing converted files?

[andrewfg]

Are the results (white noise, distorted audio, works) the result of streaming the audio to some particular player or of playing converted files?

Either. Both. If the audio plays wrong when streamed directly, it also plays wrong when saved to a file and played later...