[Gllug] 3gp players/encoders for nix

[Adrian McMenamin]

On Fri, August 18, 2006 8:02 am, Tethys wrote:
>
> Adrian McMenamin writes:
>
>>I have some videos from my phone that I'd like to muck about with on my
>>Linux box - mplayer doesn't seem to want to play the audio and mencoder
>>and ffmpeg don't want to convert it to something useful. (Video is fine
>>however).
>>
>>Has anybody else had this problem and found a solution?
>
> Yep, I had exactly the same problem. No audio from mplayer. I found
> realplayer to work (x86 binary only, I'm afraid). Don't know if the
> free helixplayer works. Suck it and see.
>
Thanks for the tip about Realplayer - which does indeed play the sound.

What I really wanted was a means to transcode these things into something
more web-friendly - anybody got any clues as to how to do that (short of
writing the code which I assume is an option as this most be an open
format)

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