Totem cannot play *.amr (AMR-NB) even when medibuntu libavcodec installed (and it can play sound in *.3gp with AMR-NB audio)

[Roman Polach]

Totem (gstreamer) cannot play *.amr (AMR-NB) files, even if
gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg,
libavcodec0d (medibuntu version),
ffmpeg (medibuntu version)
gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad
are all installed.
Totem already CAN play sound in *.3gp files with AMR-NB audio, so it seems
it can use amr-nb codec from medibuntu's ffmpeg/libavcodec...

Therefore it seems to be confusing totem's error message:
  "An error occurred"
  "The playback of this movie requires a Adaptive Multi Rate NarrowBand (AMR-NB) decoder plugin which is not installed."

Note: ffplay can play AMR files for me.

[Roman Polach (rpolach)]

For *.amr files, totem displays error message "Internal data flow error".
For *.3gp video files (containing AMR_NB audio stream) it plays only video with no audio.

[Amit Kucheria (amitk)]

This I believe is because the underlying player engines don't have the AMR stubs enabled.

I compiled my own version of ffmpeg to include amr codecs and then mplayer to just include the amr stub and everything works now.

Even if amr is not enabled in ffmeg (ubuntu, kubuntu) due to legal reasons, it _should_ be enabled in stub form in xine, mplayer, vlc, etc. so that adding real amr support is simply a matter of recompiling the ffmeg package. Currently, all of them require to be recompiled.

Also, if possible amr support should be added to restricted formats support for one-click installation.

[Nicolò Chieffo (yelo3)]

I want to play AMR audio files too, my nokia phone records audio with this format. what should I do?

[Nicolò Chieffo (yelo3)]

in the totem doc directory I can see this...

NEWS.gz:* Add support for audio/AMR, audio/AMR-WB and Musepack

but it does not work, even in 2.19.3

[Fabián Rodríguez (magicfab)]

AMR codecs incorporate several patents and as such should be implemented as separate restricted formats. I' ve added references about legal and patent issues of these codecs at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adaptive_multi-rate_compression

Adding AMR codecs in Ubuntu is a separate issue than making totem work with them if/when presente and as such it should be filed as a separate report.

An implemention of AMR codecs as separate libraries is apparently available at http://www.penguin.cz/~utx/amr and could be used for future support as a restricted codec, pending licencing information and restrictions verification.

[Nicolò Chieffo (yelo3)]

I don't mind that they are not enabled by default... Since the missing
codec-installer tool is great!
If those codecs will enter in some restricted package, will totem be
able to play them without any modification?

[exactt (giesbert)]

just tried the latest gutsy and still no sound...

so i would just like to add me to the list of requestors (for both feisty and gutsy).

thx

[Nicolò Chieffo (yelo3)]

I filed a bug upstream and they told me that gstreamer has AMR support, but ubuntu did not compile it. So I wonder why it is not compiled!

[Nicolò Chieffo (yelo3)]

upstream told me that it is in gst-plugins-bad, so I'm changing the descriptions

[Fabián Rodríguez (magicfab)]

Anything involving medibuntu means there will be no official updates or development to get this added in future Ubuntu versions.

If the medibunutu versions are not required or if there are Ubuntu packages equivalent, can we clean up the decription to reflect that ?

[Nicolò Chieffo (yelo3)]

ok please clean up the medibuntu stuff and add only the correct
gstreamer package

[Nicolò Chieffo (yelo3)]

well maybe it would be better if we open up a new bug, and reject
this. It would be better

[Nicolò Chieffo (yelo3)]

well I just downloaded the source of gstreamer ffmpeg and I realized that this package might have AMR support. I will investigate

[Nicolò Chieffo (yelo3)]

I think that definitely the problem is that the source package ffmpeg should be configured with these options (I don't know which one)
  --enable-amr_nb enable amr_nb float audio codec
  --enable-amr_nb-fixed use fixed point for amr-nb codec
  --enable-amr_wb enable amr_wb float audio codec
  --enable-amr_if2 enable amr_wb IF2 audio codec

in debian/rules none of them is enabled.

[Nicolò Chieffo (yelo3)]

The medibuntu version of ffmpeg is compiled with the amr options (--enable-amr_nb --enable-amr_wb), so it should be ok. but the thing that is not clear is how to enable amr support in applications such as gstreamer. do you know?

[Nicolò Chieffo (yelo3)]

maybe we should change this back to gstreamer...

[Michael Monreal (mimox)]

Now what about this? Can't the libgstamrnb plugin be distributed in gst-plugins-bad-multiverse or something?

[Pander (pander)]

Here is a converter for AMR to MP3:
http://www.miksoft.net/mobileMediaConverter.htm

Please provide support for AMR in Ubuntu.

[Roman Polach (rpolach)]

Pander,
for request to add new package to Ubuntu
please fill separate bug (and mark it by "needs-packaging" tag).
This should be kept separate from this issue.

[Chow Loong Jin (hyperair)]

It is possible to compile ffmpeg with AMR support, but even then Totem doesn't register that ffmpeg has AMR support. Is there a way to produce the gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg apckage with AMR support?

[Fabián Rodríguez (magicfab)]

AMR has important licensing restrictions and is covered by several patents. Currently there is no way to freely distribute it unless potentially breaking local laws.

I've documented what I found in a similar gstreamer-related bug:
https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gst-plugins-ugly0.10/+bug/184555

This basically means there will most likely never be official support for AMR in Ubuntu unless this is resolved otherwise.

So, marking this as wishlist, incomplete for now.

[exactt (giesbert)]

you might want to keep an eye on https://bugs.launchpad.net/medibuntu/+bug/94390 .

[Nicolò Chieffo (yelo3)]

Thanks

[Roman Polach (rpolach)]

The strange thing is that totem now (in Hardy with medibuntu)
can play *.3gp files with AMR-NB audio (with sound) correctly
but can NOT play *.amr files (with AMR-NB audio).

This really seems to be problem with totem and not with ffmpeg/libavcodec
which already supports AMR audio codec (in medibuntu version)

[Fabián Rodríguez (magicfab)]

Removing myself from this bug, as I can't advance it much further.

[JD (palatinetrvl11)]

I'm kinda a new user to ubuntu and i need to make amr voice memos for my palm 680 and evertime i try to convert a file with this converter it has an error and reads:

/opt/MIKSOFT/MobileMediaConverter/lib/ffmpeg: /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6: version
`GLIBC_2.7' not found (required by /opt/MIKSOFT/MobileMediaConverter/lib/ffmpeg

does anyone have any suggestions of what i need to download in order for it to work?

[Mageba (sbszulu)]

RealPlayer 11 for Linux can play .amr files.

On 13/11/2008, JD <email address hidden> wrote:
> I'm kinda a new user to ubuntu and i need to make amr voice memos for my
> palm 680 and evertime i try to convert a file with this converter it has
> an error and reads:
>
> /opt/MIKSOFT/MobileMediaConverter/lib/ffmpeg: /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6:
> version
> `GLIBC_2.7' not found (required by
> /opt/MIKSOFT/MobileMediaConverter/lib/ffmpeg
>
> does anyone have any suggestions of what i need to download in order for
> it to work?
>
> --
> Totem cannot play *.amr (AMR-NB) even when medibuntu libavcodec installed
> (and it can play sound in *.3gp with AMR-NB audio)
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/110461
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> of a duplicate bug.
>

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