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

[Mathieu Malaterre <mathieu.malaterre@gmail.com>]

On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 12:50 PM, Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> wrote:
> 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 ต-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?

Yes, apparently it is there:

$ apt-cache policy  gstreamer0.10-plugins-good
gstreamer0.10-plugins-good:
  Installed: 0.10.8-4.1~lenny2
  Candidate: 0.10.8-4.1~lenny2
  Version table:
     0.10.21-1 0
        100 http://ftp.fr.debian.org unstable/main Packages
     0.10.18-1 0
        200 http://ftp.fr.debian.org testing/main Packages
 *** 0.10.8-4.1~lenny2 0
        500 http://ftp.fr.debian.org lenny/main Packages
        500 http://security.debian.org lenny/updates/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

$ gst-typefind-0.10 /tmp/bla.wav
/tmp/bla.wav - audio/x-wav

Thanks
-- 
Mathieu