[GRLUG] Playing a g711 file

[Chase Bolen]

If you're on Ubuntu, there are the Medibuntu repositories.  I've had
some luck looking there for weird cellphone audio formats in the past.

http://www.medibuntu.org/

On Fri, 2010-08-27 at 09:33 -0400, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
> On Fri, 2010-08-27 at 09:17 -0400, Ben Rousch wrote:
> > The beauty of ffmpeg is that you don't need to know much about the
> > codecs.
> > ffmep -i infile.vbk out.wav
> 
> awilliam at linux-yu4c:~> ffmpeg -i Voice_Message.vbk out.wav
> ffmpeg: relocation error: /usr/lib64/libavcore.so.0: symbol
> av_default_item_name, version LIBAVUTIL_50 not defined in file
> libavutil.so.50 with link time reference
> 
> Arg.  My usual luck with ffmpeg.
> > 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.
> > > <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 li to
> > >> find a way to play this file or convert it to WAV or MP3.  But I h
> > >> *zero* clue how to play/convert a g711 encoded file.
> > >>
> 
> 



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