3gp video

[tikal26]

Hey i just received an e-mail with video in 3gp formatt. i never used it before and i can't open it with mplayer. anyone knows how to open this formatt all the players i find are for windows

[Hokputooy]

I found this website in a google search, http://www.saunalahti.fi/~laakkon1/linux/3650_vid.php , it shows how to convert 3gp to divx.

[tikal26]

thanks

[abhaysahai]

run ubuntusetup.sh and 3gp files run properly in Totem/Kaffine.

Regards,
Abhay

[Kimm]

I'm pretty sure it runns under RealPLayer (for Linux), I have successfully played a file of this format before on my Ubuntu installation anyway

[rajeshgautam]

I'm pretty sure it runns under RealPLayer (for Linux), I have successfully played a file of this format before on my Ubuntu installation anyway
i am sucessfully playing .3pg file with the real player

[tikal26]

Hey i just received an e-mail with video in 3gp formatt. i never used it before and i can't open it with mplayer. anyone knows how to open this formatt all the players i find are for windows
Ok thanks to all of you because it works now. I just did not that Real player provided a linux software

[coolworld]

Installed RealPlayer 10 for linux but I can't seem to play 3gp video. Do I still need to install additional plugins, if yes, where can I download them?

[sabitha]

just installed w32 codecs will be just fine, you can open the .3gp with realplayer or totem-xine ;) . install w32codecs from the synaptic

[coolworld]

just installed w32 codecs will be just fine, you can open the .3gp with realplayer or totem-xine ;) . install w32codecs from the synaptic

Just new with ubuntu, but sorry for this dumb question, but how do I install the w32codecs? I open synaptic and try to search for w32codecs by it can't find it. What should I do?

[george_apan]

Just new with ubuntu, but sorry for this dumb question, but how do I install the w32codecs? I open synaptic and try to search for w32codecs by it can't find it. What should I do?
In a terminal window write:

$ sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list

and add this line at the end:
deb ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat/ sarge main
then in the terminal again:

$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install w32codecs

and you're done.

[imagine]

Rather use a repository made for Ubuntu than Debian (Sarge).

Add this to your /etc/apt/sources.list:
deb http://packages.freecontrib.org/ubuntu/plf/ breezy free non-free

[kakashi]

compile you own mplayer. work for me. plays every single thing i throw at it.

[ubuntian]

Rather use a repository made for Ubuntu than Debian (Sarge).

Add this to your /etc/apt/sources.list:
deb http://packages.freecontrib.org/ubuntu/plf/ breezy free non-free

for .3gp file,i can play in mplayer but no sound, n one more extension is .wma(songs), can't play also....can somebody help???

[likes2skate]

A one-shot install solution is mplayer; it will show 3gp videos but the sound does not play for me because of a codec error.

[andrew.46]

Hi likes2skate,

A one-shot install solution is mplayer; it will show 3gp videos but the sound does not play for me because of a codec error.

You have brought a somewhat elderly thread back to life :-). Try installing the Medibuntu MPlayer and the w32codecs and you should be able to hear the sound as well.

Andrew

[hairy one]

Hi All
Now we can play 3gp's my question is how do we convert TO 3gp?
Please

[andrew.46]

Hi hairy one,

Now we can play 3gp's my question is how do we convert TO 3gp?

Are you sure you really want to? The video is usually not good and the sound even worse... Having said that I have used FFmpeg in the past to produce such files for a very old phone that belonged to my wife. Her newer phone is more capable so it has been a while since I dug out the following.

If you are keen to try FFmpeg by commandline you will need to compile against the amr libraries that can be found in Medibuntu and I would advise following the Fakeoutdoorsman's great guide:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=786095

but don't forget to add:

--enable-libamr-wb --enable-libamr-nb

The syntax I used for my wife's phone was:

ffmpeg -i input.avi -s qcif -vcodec h263 -sameq \
-acodec libamr_nb -ac 1 -ar 8000 -r 25 -ab 12200 output.3gp

and this worked well enough but you would need to tailor this to your specific needs. There may be a gui alternative to all of this if this all looks a bit much, but my wife was certainly happy with the results :-).

All the best,

Andrew

[FakeOutdoorsman]

but don't forget to add:

--enable-libamr-wb --enable-libamr-nb
In addition, I believe you will also need to add --enable-nonfree.

[theterabyteboy]

TRY THIS TO FIX YOUR PROBLEM:

Totem worked as root, not as user. Fix was, as user:
rm ~/.gstreamer-0.10/*
then
gst-inspect
to rebuild the gstreamer registry