[SOLVED (for now)] Speex encoder decoder Win32 CLI tools, anyone have working?

[Yansi]

Hello

just evaluating a possibility to use a Speex codec in an embedded application. https://speex.org/

There are Win32 CLI tools available for download, that would be a very helpful for debugging stuff and generating sample files. However those damned CLI apps do not work. Whenever I try to encode anything, the encoder tells me it starts encoding (or decoding) and then it crashes. Doh! 
Here is the download link for the binaries: http://downloads.xiph.org/releases/speex/speex-1.2beta3-win32.zip

Tried on two different computers running W7 x64.

Does anyone have any of these binaries actually working? Or what might be the problem?
I have only found a brief mention of the problem from May 2009: http://lists.xiph.org/pipermail/speex-dev/2009-May/007223.html

Thank you for help,
Yansi

PS: Supplied you a sample wav file if you dare to try yourself

//EDIT: Finally found the 1.0.4 binaries seems to work. Dammit! Sad they couldnt repair the bloody 1.2b3 since 2009...

[Yansi]

And what did you try to encode?

[Yansi]

What bitrate and what settings was it at? (codec complexity and quality settings)
Can you please upload the resulting ogg?

[Whales]

My understanding is that SPEEX has been completely abandoned in favour of OPUS.  That's probably why those builds are broken/out of date.

Not sure if it will be any easier/harder to implement on an embedded platform, however.  Someone who possibly may have tried.

As bad and ancient as MP3 is, you can get dedicated hardware on the cheap to decode it.