Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

[jackieflorida]

My cellphone and digital camera both record videos in 3g2 format. I would like to play them directly in Puppy 4.x. Gxine displays good video but no sound. In Windows, Quicktime works for this.

Since this is a common video format, I am hoping that someone has figured out how to play them with sound in Puppy. It's a drag to convert say a 40mb 3g2 file online to a wmv or wav file. I would just like to play it directly as in the phone or camera.

[tempestuous]

You need the uncommon AMR audio codec. Use this version of MPlayer-1.0rc2
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=26511

[jackieflorida]

Thanks tempestuous.

This version of mplayer with library files works very nicely, both video and audio.

I set Run Action in the Shell Command Line as: mplayer "$@"

Now all of my 3g2 and 3gp files open with a mouse click in mplayer.

In Windows, as mentioned above, Quicktime plays these and .mov files that I have from another digicam.

I did find Quicktime4Linux here:
http://linux.softpedia.com/get/Programming/Libraries/Quicktime-for-Linux-257.shtml

I'm wondering if this could be made into a PET and/or an SFS? I would like to try it in Puppy, but I don't know well enough how to make it.

[BarryK]

Do you have a URL of a small 3g2 file that I can download and play with?

[jackieflorida]

Re BarryK request:

I have uploaded three .3g2 and one .mov videos as samples:

3g2 videos taken on an LG DARE cell phone at 640X480 and 8khz
1. motorcycle.3g2: 681K 5sec motorcycle sound
2. PrinceRings.3g2: 5923K 40sec dog voice sound
3. WaltzAcrossTX.3g2: 34M 3min49sec Kentuckers Blue Grass Band sound

MOV video taken on a Panasonic Lumix digicam at 320X240 and 8khz
4. movieSet.MOV: 2522 K 15sec general background noise

Folder here: http://www.myotherdrive.com/dyn/ls/575.321209.30122009.90590.6a65dy/PuppyLinux3g2Samples

When run in Gxine the properties are shown on the main screen, but at this point for me there is no sound for the 3g2's but good video. I would prefer to add the codec for the sound but at this point I don't know how to do that.

For me, Mplayer locks up when run from the Menu, but works fine via Console. That is why I used the shell command in the Set Run Action above. The sound is only 8khz so the music quality is not good but kind of OK for voice and general sounds.

The 3g2 and 3gp formats are common on cell phones and both play in Mplayer from Console.

The .MOV files are typically run via Quicktime in Windows. Rendering in Gxine is halting video but good sound. In Mplayer both video and sound is good. I would also like to be able to configure Gxine for the proper playing of this type of video too.

[mikeb]

the 3gp's have sound and vision in vlc 0.8.6c
mike

[jackieflorida]

Using:
VLC media player 0.8.6h Janus (wxWidgets interface)
(c) 1996-2008 - the VideoLAN Team
Compiled by root@localhost.unknown.
Compiler: gcc version 4.2.2.
Based on SVN revision: exported.

I get good video but no sound for .3g2.
I get both good video and sound for .mov.

[rjbrewer]

In my 4.3.1 install on laptop I have Mplayer 1rc2-puppy412
installed.

Plays the 3g2 and mov. files (sound and video) very well.

http://dotpups.de/puppy4/dotpups/Multimedia/

Have a mplayer icon on desktop and just drag file from
root to icon.

[mikeb]

vlc 0.8.6f uses the shared avcodec like xine...0.8.6c it is compiled statically ...IIRC mplayer is too....so the common factor seems to be the included libavcodec...perhaps it was compiled without 3gp support to save space?

mike

[BarryK]

Testing in Quirky, which has xine, and ffmpeg compiled recently in T2, I get video and sound for movieSet.MOV, but for the .3g2 files I get video but no sound.

[tempestuous]

The reason my MPlayer package plays 3gp audio is that I compiled it against a separate library: libamr. This library is proprietary.
There's now an opensource decoder for the AMR codec, available since June 2009 -
http://sourceforge.net/projects/opencore-amr/
I'm not sure if MPlayer/Xine/VLC can be compiled against this new library.

[mikeb]

From the media info...and I don't have the external libamr either and -vvv gave me no clues either..

mikr

[BarryK]

[tempestuous]

[mikeb]