[MPlayer-users] Re: MPlayer-users Digest, Vol 21, Issue 7

Mon Sep 5 21:09:00 CEST 2005

On Monday, 05 September 2005 at 17:13, Jouni.Lohikoski at iki.fi wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 04, 2005 at 08:45:26PM +0200, mplayer-users-request at mplayerhq.hu wrote:
> > On Saturday, 03 September 2005 at 21:41, michal panaak wrote:
> > > hi,
> > > 
> > > i want to use mplayer to play 3gp files shot with my nokia6230 phone..
> > > i'm able to see the video, but no sound.. i compiled it with
> > > --enable-amr_nb , added the definition to codecs.conf, but still mplayer
> > > says it cannot find the the right codec..
> > > 
> > > i read somewhere that i should try the amr_nb_fixed version, so
> > > now i'm trying to compile mplayer with --enable-amr_nb_fixed , but the
> > > compilation breaks with this error:
> > 
> > You need some additional sources. Here's a HOWTO:
> > Download:
> > http://www.3gpp.org/ftp/Specs/latest/Rel-6/26_series/26104-610.zip
> ....
> 
> Couldn't 3gp audio codec be just a so-library which could be downloaded
> in a zip-package and plugged into mplayer just like many other codecs?

No, due to legal issues. AFAIK we can't distribute binaries compiled from
that code freely. Besides, this is more of a libavcodec/FFmpeg issue than
MPlayer.

R.

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