[GRLUG] Playing a g711 file

[Michael Mol]

As long as you're not doing professional-grade video, at least. (If
audio and video quality is of a concern, it's worthwhile to learn
about the common audio and video codecs, their features, and your
options in controlling target bitrates.)

On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 9:17 AM, Ben Rousch <brousch at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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