{"id":100,"date":"2007-09-24T09:45:34","date_gmt":"2007-09-24T07:45:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/2007\/09\/24\/3gp-movies-on-debian\/"},"modified":"2009-06-01T12:18:22","modified_gmt":"2009-06-01T10:18:22","slug":"3gp-movies-on-debian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/2007\/09\/24\/3gp-movies-on-debian\/","title":{"rendered":"3gp movies on Debian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Sony Ericsson w580i\" src=\"http:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/09\/w580i.png\" alt=\"Sony Ericsson w580i\" hspace=\"10\" vspace=\"5\" align=\"left\" \/>I recently shot a little video with my phone (SE w580i) and when I copied it over to my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.debian.org\/\">Debian<\/a> Linux box I of course immediately realized I had no video players that would show a 3GP film. Or rather, they all showed it but none of them played the sound! It seems the phone uses the &#8216;<em>amr_nb<\/em>&#8216; codec for audio, which is a non-free thing that my &#8220;Debian unstable&#8221; players (not very surprisingly) don&#8217;t have built-in support for&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, if you close your eyes for the problems with closed proprietary evil, I got pointed to the cool site <a href=\"http:\/\/www.debian-multimedia.org\">www.debian-multimedia.org<\/a> and then I could add the following line to my \/etc\/apt\/sources.list<\/p>\n<p><code>deb http:\/\/www.debian-multimedia.org unstable main<\/code><\/p>\n<p>&#8230; and do a plain plain &#8220;apt-get update&#8221; and &#8220;apt-get dist-upgrade&#8221; and wham, my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mplayerhq.hu\/\">mplayer<\/a> could now show the 3gp video with sound.<a href=\"http:\/\/www.debian.org\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Film and Sound icon\" src=\"http:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/09\/film-sound.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Film and Sound icon\" hspace=\"10\" vspace=\"5\" width=\"64\" height=\"64\" align=\"right\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The only slightly quirk remaining is that I didn&#8217;t manage to transcode the movie with audio nicely with mencode, but I didn&#8217;t really spend enough time to figure out why.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently shot a little video with my phone (SE w580i) and when I copied it over to my Debian Linux box I of course immediately realized I had no video players that would show a 3GP film. Or rather, they all showed it but none of them played the sound! It seems the phone &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/2007\/09\/24\/3gp-movies-on-debian\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">3gp movies on Debian<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[259,150,421,225,109],"class_list":["post-100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linux","tag-3g","tag-debian","tag-linux","tag-mobile-phones","tag-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":861,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100\/revisions\/861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}