Adaptive Multi Rate (AMR) decoder

[patman0623]

amr support in gstreamer will be available in lucid thru the ugly plugin and the opencore libs though I wouldn't expect jaunty or karmic to be updated there.
Ironically the lucid ffmpeg does not support amr and unless some changes are made won't.

Is is quite easy and possible to build the new ugly plugin in karmic, just did and totem/rhythmbox now plays amr audio (3gp) with no issues


(( very easy to build as a .deb and replace the current karmic ver.

By all means, please give instructions on how to do this.

[mc4man]

give instructions on how to do this.

Note edit - gstreamer ppa

Note that I haven't bothered to see if there were any ill/unexpected results though all seems fine. If for any reason seems unsuitable then just remove and re-install karmic package.

( over the last day or so, while testing some ways to keep totem-xine alive in karmic and lucid, have come to dislike totem-gstreamer and gstreamer in general even more than before, if that's even possible. ( do have totem-xine going good in karmic and for the moment lucid

Anyway...
As far as build-deps you're a bit on your own, never hurts to run

sudo apt-get install build-essential

this should help add a bit more

sudo apt-get build-dep gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly

Also install if not already

sudo apt-get install dpkg-dev fakeroot libopencore-amrnb-dev libopencore-amrwb-dev

Once you have the source look in /debian/control and or /debian/build-deps for list if needed to d.ck.

mkdir gstugly && cd gstugly

wget http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/g/gst-plugins-ugly0.10/gst-plugins-ugly0.10_0.10.13.orig.tar.gz

Edit: the next 2 wgets are good till the plugin updates in lucid, if it does, ck. ver. #'s here

wget http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/g/gst-plugins-ugly0.10/gst-plugins-ugly0.10_0.10.13-2.dsc

wget http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/g/gst-plugins-ugly0.10/gst-plugins-ugly0.10_0.10.13-2.diff.gz

dpkg-source -x *.dsc

cd gst-plugins-ugly0.10-0.10.13

double ck. your build-deps, then (I use debuild, but this should suffice

dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -D -us -uc

If there are any errors than you are missing some build-dep(s), correct and try again

from my build log (see no point in the x264 plugin (encoding

configure: *** Plug-ins without external dependencies that will be built:
asfdemux
dvdlpcmdec
dvdsub
iec958
mpegaudioparse
mpegstream
realmedia

configure: *** Plug-ins without external dependencies that will NOT be built:
synaesthesia

configure: *** Plug-ins with dependencies that will be built:
a52dec
amrnb
amrwbdec
cdio
dvdreadsrc
lame
mad
mpeg2dec
sid
twolame

configure: *** Plug-ins with dependencies that will NOT be built:
x264

If the build fails (shouldn't if all deps are installed ) then you could after squaring away the debs, either try the final build command again, or run a make distclean first or just delete the gst-plugins-ugly0.10-0.10.13 folder and at the ~/gstugly prompt start back at the dpkg-source command

Just install (d.click on) the highlighted .deb in screen (did a quick test of commands here to ck.

edit: karmic sometimes needs a restart for things to take effect

no need to build - this ppa will give karmic the newer gstreamer plugins (inc. wma3

https://launchpad.net/~gstreamer-dev...s/+archive/ppa

[alveola]

My solution for this problem is without compiling, backporting or apt-pinning.
Install two packages from Lucid: libcdio10 & gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly, following the next steps:

1. Download these two packages for your architecture (i386/amd64):

• libcdio10
• gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly

2. Installation
a. (karmic)

sudo apt-get install libopencore-amrnb0 libopencore-amrwb0

b. (lucid)

sudo dpkg -i libcdio10_0.81-4_amd64.deb
sudo dpkg -i gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly_0.10.13-2_amd64.deb

regards

[thirdreplicator]

This worked for me. Thank you!! (64-bit karmic koala)

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My solution for this problem is without compiling, backporting or apt-pinning.
Install two packages from Lucid: libcdio10 & gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly, following the next steps:

1. Download these two packages for your architecture (i386/amd64):
libcdio10
gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly

2. Installation
a. (karmic)
Code:
sudo apt-get install libopencore-amrnb0 libopencore-amrwb0
b. (lucid)
Code:
sudo dpkg -i libcdio10_0.81-4_amd64.deb
sudo dpkg -i gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly_0.10.13-2_amd64.deb

[marin123]

thanks man!! this worked for me too (karmic x64)

[Yellow Pasque]

Easiest way to get updated gstreamer for karmic: https://launchpad.net/~gstreamer-dev...s/+archive/ppa

[boddhisatva]

Thanks alveola!
I tried all the other solutions and none helped, not even realplayer which either "played" the file with no sound, or crashed. I can now play my phone files in Totem (for the FIRST time, previously I converted them with Mobile Media Converter). And I'm going to remove realplayer and other trash . Even MPlayer, which I don't use (and don't particularly like, though it may sound like blasphemy to some .

[andrew.46]

Hi boddhisatva,

Even MPlayer, which I don't use (and don't particularly like, though it may sound like blasphemy to some .

Mind you it does not take much to get MPlayer to play these files:

andrew@skamandros~$ mplayer -ac help | grep amr
ffamrnb     ffmpeg    working   AMR Narrowband  [libopencore_amrnb]
ffamrwb     ffmpeg    working   AMR Wideband  [libopencore_amrwb]

Andrew

[boddhisatva]

Sorry Andrew, it ain't so, not here anyway.

1. Code:

pawel@pawel-desktop:~$ mplayer -ac help | grep amr

ffamrnb     ffmpeg    working   AMR Narrowband  [libamr_nb]
ffamrwb     ffmpeg    working   AMR Wideband  [libamr_wb]

2. MPlayer:

[andrew.46]

Hi boddhisatva,

Sorry Andrew, it ain't so, not here anyway

Try installing libavcodec-extra-52 from Medibuntu, this should enable amr playback for MPlayer under Karmic Koala. The following command will grab this package + MPlayer + SMPlayer:

sudo wget http://www.medibuntu.org/sources.list.d/$(lsb_release -cs).list \
 --output-document=/etc/apt/sources.list.d/medibuntu.list &&
sudo apt-get -q update &&
sudo apt-get --yes -q --allow-unauthenticated install medibuntu-keyring &&
sudo apt-get -q update && \
sudo apt-get -y install libavcodec-extra-52 mplayer-nogui smplayer

You would be well advised to also grab either w32codecs or w64codecs depending on the architecture of your Ubuntu installation (not necessary for amr playback). I attach a screenshot of my Karmic system happily playing this 3gp file:

wget http://www.andrews-corner.org/samples/Rammstein_Du_Hast.3gp

but I guess you have to imagine the sound

All the best,

Andrew