[GRLUG] Playing a g711 file

[Adam Tauno Williams]

On Fri, 2010-08-27 at 09:10 -0400, 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.

I did try with vlc:

awilliam at linux-yu4c:~> cvlc --play-and-exit --verbose Voice_Message.vbk 
VLC media player 1.1.3 The Luggage (revision exported)
Blocked: call to unsetenv("DBUS_ACTIVATION_ADDRESS")
Blocked: call to unsetenv("DBUS_ACTIVATION_BUS_TYPE")
Warning: call to signal(13, 0x1)
[0x635580] dummy interface: using the dummy interface module...

... it just sits there, it doesn't exit, and no audio ...

> 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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