totem and android videos

[suvayu ali]

2009/5/23 Wolfgang S. Rupprecht <wolfgang.rupprecht+gnus200905 at gmail.com>:
>
> The new Google G1 (linux-based) phone just added camcorder capability.
> Unfortunately the audio codec is something weird and totem complains
> about a missing codec.
>
>    $ totem video-2009-05-23-15-33-41.3gp
>    ** Message: don't know how to handle audio/AMR, codec_data=(buffer)0000001164616d7270766d6d0000020001, rate=(int)8000, channels=(int)1
>    ** Message: Missing plugin: gstreamer|0.10|totem|Adaptive Multi Rate (AMR) decoder|decoder-audio/AMR (Adaptive Multi Rate (AMR) decoder)
>    ** Message: PackageKit: xid = 69206019
>    ** Message: PackageKit: Codec nice name: Adaptive Multi Rate (AMR) decoder
>    ** Message: PackageKit: structure: gstreamer0.10(decoder-audio/AMR)()(64bit)
>    ** Message: PackageKit: Did not install codec: The name org.freedesktop.PackageKit was not provided by any .service files
>    ** Message: No installation candidate for missing plugins found.
>    ** Message: don't know how to handle audio/AMR, codec_data=(buffer)0000001164616d7270766d6d0000020001, rate=(int)8000, channels=(int)1
>    ** Message: Missing plugin: gstreamer|0.10|totem|Adaptive Multi Rate (AMR) decoder|decoder-audio/AMR (ignoring)
>    ** Message: All missing plugins are blacklisted, doing nothing
>
> Is there an RPM that I'm missing that provides this codec?  I thought I
> had all the gstreamer ugly/bad/downright-evil etc codecs that were
> available.
>

This is an Apple format. On windows quicktime or realplayer is capable
of playing this. I use mplayer for this kind of formats. I don't know
which particular codec mplayer uses, but the tarball of codecs from
the project homepage works for me.

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Suvayu

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