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Re: How to play 3gp audio files?



On 16 April 2010 22:00, John Magolske <listmail@b79.net> wrote:
> I'm looking for a way to play *.3gp audio files from the command line.
> Mplayer doesn't seem to work:
>
>    % Mplayer some-audio-file.3gp
>    [...]
>    Playing some-audio-file.3gp.
>    libavformat file format detected.
>    [lavf] Audio stream found, -aid 0
>    ==========================================================================
>    Opening audio decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg/libavcodec audio decoders
>    Cannot find codec 'libamr_nb' in libavcodec...
>    ADecoder init failed :(
>    ADecoder init failed :(
>    Cannot find codec for audio format 0x726D6173.
>    Read DOCS/HTML/en/codecs.html!
>    Audio: no sound
>    Video: no video
>
> Any suggestions for alternate approaches, pointers on how & what to
> install in terms of a codec, or maybe a way to convert these files
> (ideally without transcoding degradation)?
>
> These audio files were created by the android app "Voice Recorder".
>
> TIA for any help,
>
> John
>

This is by far the best app for converting 3gp files:
http://www.miksoft.net/mobileMediaConverter.htm

It's not cli, it's ugly, but it works better than anything else. The
sound qualit of the resulting files is excellent, and it will work in
batch.

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