[GRLUG] Playing a g711 file

[Adam Tauno Williams]

On Fri, 2010-08-27 at 09:12 -0400, Steve Romanow wrote:
> On 8/27/2010 9:10 AM, Michael Mol 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.
> I was dismayed as soon as I saw Nortel.

+1  Telephony people are not IT people;  talking to them is a unique
experience.


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