Davinci Resolve wav format support (With answers!)

TLDR: Davinci Resolve reads f32le, s16le, s24le, s32le wav files.

I was curious about the wave format support, so I did a test:
Firstly gather all the wav formats ffmpeg supports (https://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/audio%20types ), then create a batch file to output them all:

Code: Select all

ffmpeg -i Input_File -acodec pcm_alaw Output_File-alaw.wav
ffmpeg -i Input_File -acodec pcm_f32be Output_File-f32be.wav
ffmpeg -i Input_File -acodec pcm_f32le Output_File-f32le.wav
ffmpeg -i Input_File -acodec pcm_f64be Output_File-f64be.wav
ffmpeg -i Input_File -acodec pcm_f64le Output_File-f64le.wav
ffmpeg -i Input_File -acodec pcm_mulaw Output_File-mulaw.wav
ffmpeg -i Input_File -acodec pcm_s16be Output_File-s16be.wav
ffmpeg -i Input_File -acodec pcm_s16le Output_File-s16le.wav
ffmpeg -i Input_File -acodec pcm_s24be Output_File-s24be.wav
ffmpeg -i Input_File -acodec pcm_s24le Output_File-s24le.wav
ffmpeg -i Input_File -acodec pcm_s32be Output_File-s32be.wav
ffmpeg -i Input_File -acodec pcm_s32le Output_File-s32le.wav
ffmpeg -i Input_File -acodec pcm_s8 Output_File-s8.wav
ffmpeg -i Input_File -acodec pcm_u16be Output_File-u16be.wav
ffmpeg -i Input_File -acodec pcm_u16le Output_File-u16le.wav
ffmpeg -i Input_File -acodec pcm_u24be Output_File-u24be.wav
ffmpeg -i Input_File -acodec pcm_u24le Output_File-u24le.wav
ffmpeg -i Input_File -acodec pcm_u32be Output_File-u32be.wav
ffmpeg -i Input_File -acodec pcm_u32le Output_File-u32le.wav
ffmpeg -i Input_File -acodec pcm_u8 Output_File-u8.wav

There’s 2 results in this:
Result 1: (As of December 2019) ffmpeg does not output f32be, f64be, s16be, s24be, s32be, s8, u16be, u16le, u24be, u24le, u32be or u32le.
That leaves us with alaw, f32le, f64le, mulaw, s16le, s24le, s32le and u8.
Result 2: Resolve (16.1.1.005, Windows 10) reads f32le, s16le, s24le, s32le wav files (and decodes them correctly and decodes the bit depth and sample rate correctly).

Best regards
Mads

Resolve 17.1.1 build 9 on Windows 10 additionally supports u8