[GRLUG] Playing a g711 file

[Ben Rousch]

The beauty of ffmpeg is that you don't need to know much about the codecs.

ffmep -i infile.vbk out.wav

On Aug 27, 2010 9:12 AM, "Michael Mol" <mikemol at gmail.com> wrote:
> Try running it through mplayer and/or ffmpeg; if an audio file can be
> decoded under Linux, one of those two can usually do it.
>
> As far as GUI stuff, the gstreamer-plugins-bad (or is it
> gstreamer-plugins-ugly?) often brings to gstreamer support for things
> usually left to ffmpeg and mplayer.
>
> On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 8:41 AM, Adam Tauno Williams
> <awilliam at whitemice.org> wrote:
>>
>> I have a file [extension VBK] that contains audio [of some kind].
>>
>> The header of the file looks like:
>> -----------------------------------
>> "NortelMultimedia....g711.......t"
>>
>> The rest [in ghex2] looks like just-binary-data.  I'd really like to
>> find a way to play this file or convert it to WAV or MP3.  But I have
>> *zero* clue how to play/convert a g711 encoded file.
>>
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