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====== WSS File Converter ======

**WSS File Converter** by Stoppelhopser

Used to convert WAV files into WSS files which OFP uses and the other way around.

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This program was written for the OFP community to convert BIS´s wss soundfiles to wav format and vice versae.

This program used to be based on two DOS applications called wsscod and wssdec. It used to serve as a GUI for these progs to save the annoying command line inputs. There was, however, the problem that filepaths needed to be converted to 8.3 format, which caused a bug in the application because i did not do it. Instead of adding this feature, i implemented file conversion routines to get rid of the DOS utilities.

====== Usage ======

  * To convert wav-files into wss, click the "wss encode" button. If you want the source wav-files to be deleted after encoding, check the "Delete wav files after encode" box. Select one or multiple files in the "File Open" dialog and click ok to start conversion.
  * To convert wss-files into wav, click the "wss decode" button and select files to be converted from the "File Open" dialog and click ok to start conversion.
  * When conversion is done, the conversion list will show extended information. If a file could not be convertet, a " - " will be prefixed to the filename. Successfully converted files are marked " + ".
  * The converted files will be created in the same directory as the source files. If a file with the same filename already exists in the directory, it will be replaced by the new file.

====== Notes On Audiofiles ======

OFP uses Microsofts DirectSound runtime to playback sounds. DirectSound is only capable of playing back sound PCM data, which is an uncompressed format. The most common format types are:
  * Sample rate: 11,025 / 22,05 / 44,1 kHz
  * Bit depth: 8 / 16
  * Channels: mono / stereo

Other format types (e.g. 24bit/sample) might also be supported, but this depends on the audio hardware.

If the sound is a 3D-sound (in flashpoint, all sounds except radio and music), it has to be a mono file, because stereo impression is generated dynamically by the DirectSound engine.

Thus, using ogg-files for flashpoint only makes sense for music, environment sounds and (maybe) radio. ogg-compressed files only reduce resource size, but flashpoint must convert these files to PCM before using them, so loading the file may reduce performance due to the required conversion process.

====== Notes ======

Download official link [[http://files.filefront.com/OFP_Utility_WSS_Windows/;4066894;;/fileinfo.html|filefront]] - 1.5mb (but that includes some installed which inserts dll's to your windows dir, NOT recommended to use)\\
Download from PMC Tactical: [[http://www.pmctactical.org/ofp/downloads/wss_file_converter.rar|wss_file_converter.rar]] - 11kb.
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