Journal DeadTOm's Journal: Can't hear sound on quicktime or 3gp/3g2 files 1
So my LG phone records movies in 3g2 format. I've been trying to convert them to mpegs and vice versa using mencoder but kept getting this error:
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Opening audio decoder: [qtaudio] QuickTime Audio Decoder
Win32 LoadLibrary failed to load: QuickTime.qts, /usr/lib/win32/QuickTime.qts, /usr/local/lib/win32/QuickTime.qts
failed loading QuickTime.qts
ADecoder preinit failed :(
ADecoder init failed :(
Cannot find codec for audio format 0x706C6351.
Read DOCS/HTML/en/codecs.html!
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I knew that I needed the w32codec package for mplayer but couldn't seem to find ubuntu packages for it and I just didn't feel like compiling the whole thing. So after much frustrated googling put together the following solution.
Run these commands:
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sudo wget http://www.medibuntu.org/sources.list.d/hardy.list -O /etc/apt/sources.list.d/medibuntu.list
sudo wget -q http://packages.medibuntu.org/medibuntu-key.gpg -O-¦ sudo apt-key add -
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install w32codecs
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I attempted the conversion on a movie file from my phone and it worked flawlessly, sound and all. :)
I wrote the following script, and named it phoneconvert:
mencoder $1 -oac mp3lame -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4 -o $2
So now when I want to convert a movie from my phone to mpeg format with mp3 audio I just run this command:
phoneconvert inputmovie.3g2 outputmovie.mpg
Working beautifully.
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Opening audio decoder: [qtaudio] QuickTime Audio Decoder
Win32 LoadLibrary failed to load: QuickTime.qts,
failed loading QuickTime.qts
ADecoder preinit failed
ADecoder init failed
Cannot find codec for audio format 0x706C6351.
Read DOCS/HTML/en/codecs.html!
==========================================================================
I knew that I needed the w32codec package for mplayer but couldn't seem to find ubuntu packages for it and I just didn't feel like compiling the whole thing. So after much frustrated googling put together the following solution.
Run these commands:
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sudo wget http://www.medibuntu.org/sources.list.d/hardy.list -O
sudo wget -q http://packages.medibuntu.org/medibuntu-key.gpg -O-¦ sudo apt-key add -
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install w32codecs
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I attempted the conversion on a movie file from my phone and it worked flawlessly, sound and all.
I wrote the following script, and named it phoneconvert:
mencoder $1 -oac mp3lame -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4 -o $2
So now when I want to convert a movie from my phone to mpeg format with mp3 audio I just run this command:
phoneconvert inputmovie.3g2 outputmovie.mpg
Working beautifully.
For reference phone sound convert (Score:1)
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I am only posting in this thread as I have too many bookmarks already and hopefully I can find the entry in my list of slashdot entries.
Thanks