Re: The playback of this movie requires a A-Law decoder plugin which is not installed.

[Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>]

On 2010-03-14 06:32, Mathieu Malaterre wrote:
> Hi there,
>
>   I am trying to read a wav file using totem. However it fails with
> the following:
>
> $ totem bla.wav
> ** Message: don't know how to handle audio/x-alaw, rate=(int)8000,
> channels=(int)1

You must be European.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%9C-law_algorithm
    The µ-law algorithm (often u-law, ulaw, mu-law, ...)
    is a companding algorithm, primarily used in the digital
    telecommunication systems of North America and Japan.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A-law_algorithm
    An A-law algorithm is a standard companding algorithm,
    used in European digital communications systems

$ file foo.wav
foo.wav: RIFF (little-endian) data, WAVE audio, ITU G.711 mu-law, 
mono 8000 Hz

Try this:
$ apt-file search alaw | grep gstream

Do you have gstreamer0.10-plugins-good installed?

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