On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 4:03 PM, Charles philip Chan wrote:

"Greg Freemyer" writes:

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I have some multi-media software installed, but I just tried to play a wav file from our PBX. RealPlayer launched but told me it could not play this type of file.

Strange, are you sure they are wav files? Are they playable with either "play" or "aplay" from the command line?

Charles

$ aplay voiceMail.wav aplay: test_wavefile:731: can't play not PCM-coded WAVE-files Maybe not. the PBX is a 3com NBX 100 if anyone is familiar with them. Anyway aplay complains as well. This is an old pbx. I'm not sure anyone in our company is using this method to play their voicemails even from a PC. Greg -- Greg Freemyer Litigation Triage Solutions Specialist http://www.linkedin.com/in/gregfreemyer First 99 Days Litigation White Paper - http://www.norcrossgroup.com/forms/whitepapers/99%20Days%20whitepaper.pdf The Norcross Group The Intersection of Evidence & Technology http://www.norcrossgroup.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

On Friday 2008-04-25 00:50, Charles philip Chan wrote:

"Greg Freemyer" writes:

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Anyway aplay complains as well. This is an old pbx. I'm not sure anyone in our company is using this method to play their voicemails even from a PC.

Can you send me a small test file privately?

Just use mplayer. If _that_ does not get it right, it must be some very obscure format. (Note that it's perfectly ok to embed mp3 into RIFF ("WAV"), and also mp3 into WAV ("WAVE/fmt"), for example.) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 11:28 AM, Philipp Thomas wrote:

On Thu, 24 Apr 2008 18:38:40 -0400, Greg Freemyer wrote:

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aplay: test_wavefile:731: can't play not PCM-coded WAVE-files

wav is a container like avi and can contain quite a few audio formats. One possibility are the compressed PCM files supported by windows. aplay doesn't support them but mplayer with win32 codecs should be able to play them.

Try running 'file' on them and post its output. file is quite good at determining audio file formats if they can be guessed from file header data.

Philipp

Per file it is: RIFF (little-endian) data, WAVE audio, IMA ADPCM, mono 8000 Hz And with the assistance of Charles Chan I can play it via "play" from the sox package. Anyone know of way to do it with a gui. Would like to have a slider bar and a pause resume feature. These are voicemails after all. Thanks Greg -- Greg Freemyer Litigation Triage Solutions Specialist http://www.linkedin.com/in/gregfreemyer First 99 Days Litigation White Paper - http://www.norcrossgroup.com/forms/whitepapers/99%20Days%20whitepaper.pdf The Norcross Group The Intersection of Evidence & Technology http://www.norcrossgroup.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

On Mon April 28 2008 07:52:30 pm Charles philip Chan wrote:

"Greg Freemyer"

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Anyone know of way to do it with a gui. Would like to have a slider bar and a pause resume feature. These are voicemails after all.

You can play it in Audacity (haven't tested it with other audio editors) or any media player that uses mplayer or xine.

Charles

I wonder if lame can handle the original file format? It's pretty robust... The following would be informative: lame -h originalfilename -b 32 targetfilename.mp3 (the parameters -h 'high quality' and 32K bitrate are nominal) If it doesn't 'choke' or produce garbage, Greg, you can then just play the encoded file(s) with whatever your preferred .mp3 player is. hth & regards, Carl -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

"Greg Freemyer" writes:

Audacity looks like it is working and it is showing me a nice wave form. But no sound. :( I tried all the sound devices available under preferences.

Strange, it plays fine for me. What is your "audio I/O" set to? Try alsa:default. However, since my copy of Audacity is the latest developmental version from CVS, I can't rule out the probability that there is some thing wrong with the packman package. I will download it later to test it out. Charles

"Greg Freemyer" writes:

Not sure what I did, but I did change to the alsa:default, create a project, close, re-launch, and suddenly it was working.

You don't need to create a project manually. You can just open the wav file with Audacity and it will automatically do that. Charles

Philipp Thomas wrote:

On Mon, 28 Apr 2008 11:15:30 -0400, Greg Freemyer wrote:

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Per file it is: RIFF (little-endian) data, WAVE audio, IMA ADPCM, mono 8000 Hz

I thought so. ADPCM is compressed PCM that few Linux tools can read.

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And with the assistance of Charles Chan I can play it via "play" from the sox package. Anyone know of way to do it with a gui. Would like to have a slider bar and a pause resume feature. These are voicemails after all.

sox should be able to convert the file to a simple non-compressed PCM version. Maybe a 'sox input.wav output.wav' will do the trick, otherwise see the sox man page for options. Those simple PCM .wav files should then be playable by any GUI sound player.

Philipp w32codec-all and libxine1-w32dll, both from packman repo should take care of your problem. Regards Dave P -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

Philipp Thomas wrote:

On Tue, 29 Apr 2008 08:38:46 +0200, Dave Plater wrote:

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w32codec-all and libxine1-w32dll, both from packman repo should take care of your problem.

Please be more careful when you quote as I don't have a problem.

Philipp Excuse my poor wording, the two packages enable any media player that uses the xine library to play any microsoft video or audio file. Regards Dave P -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

Jerry Houston wrote:

Dave Plater wrote:

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Philipp Thomas wrote:

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w32codec-all and libxine1-w32dll, both from packman repo should take care of your problem. Excuse my poor wording, the two packages enable any media player that uses the xine library to play any microsoft video or audio file.

Sounds like just what I need -- some streaming video I want to watch (motorcycle races, for example), is viewable with my XP-Pro laptop, but not with my SuSE 10.3 Linux laptop.

However, even with the packman repository selected, neither of those show up in a software search using YaST. What am I doing wrong? Hi Jerry, here's my packman repo ftp://ftp.links2linux.de/%2fpub/packman/suse/10.3 just checked and they're still there. Regards Dave P -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org