I wonder if anyone has any ideas on this..
The 3gp video files produced by my phone (or, for that matter, any other phone I have access to) are not so readily accessible through media players as I'd hoped.
Some 3gp files can be played by mpeg4 stuff, but phone-shot ones are without sound.
Now usually, this sort of thing is a matter of being told "ah, everybody uses package X", but I can't find much in google.
I have progressed through several levels of the inferno, past xine, even into the dark and shady lands of RealPlayer(shudder)'s 3gp support, and have now reached the truly gutwrenching depths of running Microsoft's Windows Media Player (shudder still more).
All the files work perfectly in WMP, which is consequently associated with 3gp files on our machines for pragmatism's sake.
This, is not a desirable state of affairs.
...Help, anyone?
There are 10 types of people in this world -those who understand binary, and those who don't.
On Wed, Aug 10, 2005 at 01:53:50AM +0100, Ten wrote:
Now usually, this sort of thing is a matter of being told "ah, everybody uses package X", but I can't find much in google.
First hit out of google for "3gp linux" was this page, do these instructions not work for you? as they worked for me :) or is it that there is more than 1 flavour of 3gp?
http://www.saunalahti.fi/~laakkon1/linux/3650_vid.php
Thanks Adam
On Wednesday 10 August 2005 08:42, Adam Bower wrote:
On Wed, Aug 10, 2005 at 01:53:50AM +0100, Ten wrote:
Now usually, this sort of thing is a matter of being told "ah, everybody uses package X", but I can't find much in google.
First hit out of google for "3gp linux" was this page, do these instructions not work for you? as they worked for me :) or is it that there is more than 1 flavour of 3gp?
http://www.saunalahti.fi/~laakkon1/linux/3650_vid.php
Thanks Adam
I was going to suggest installing MPlayer as well. It's played everything I've ever thrown at it.
That page also demonstrates how to convert the files with MPlayers built in re-encoder to some other format. Personally I don't bother with that since I use MPlayer to play all my media anyway.
Matt
On Wednesday 10 August 2005 08:42, Adam Bower wrote:
On Wed, Aug 10, 2005 at 01:53:50AM +0100, Ten wrote:
Now usually, this sort of thing is a matter of being told "ah, everybody uses package X", but I can't find much in google.
First hit out of google for "3gp linux" was this page, do these instructions not work for you? as they worked for me :) or is it that there is more than 1 flavour of 3gp?
http://www.saunalahti.fi/~laakkon1/linux/3650_vid.php
Thanks Adam
I've got 3gp files playing, but under some circumstances - ie when they're made using a phone, there's no sound.
My suspicion is that the sound problems are due to the sound being in the wrong type of AMR (narrowband vs. wideband).
Unfortunately, that guy has the same problem.
I'm loth to install mplayer for various uninteresting reasons, and would rather just run straight wmp - I usually find xine/kaffeine/etc a lot better these days anyway :)
Anyway, on the offchance, I installed mplayer and have encountered the same problem as in kaffeine and totem - ie, sound in clips made on a computer, none in those made on my phone.
BUT, and this is a big but, mplayer returned this error:
Cannot find audio codec for audio format 0x726D6173
popped this in google, and the cached version of a dead page it threw up said it was:
AMR Narrowband 0x726D6173 amr_nb
Maybe this confirms my suspicions... not got time to look into it right away, but hopefully when I do, this will prove fruitful.
On Wed, Aug 10, 2005 at 01:31:03PM +0100, Ten wrote:
Anyway, on the offchance, I installed mplayer and have encountered the same problem as in kaffeine and totem - ie, sound in clips made on a computer, none in those made on my phone.
BUT, and this is a big but, mplayer returned this error:
Cannot find audio codec for audio format 0x726D6173
FWIW I've just hit this and added:
audiocodec ffamr format 0x726D6173 fourcc "samr" dll "amr_nb"
to the bottom of /etc/mplayer.conf and now have sound from the few .3gp files I have to test with at present.
(I also did the "format 0x33363273" under the existing "videocodec ffh263" section thing.)
J.
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