Can't play voicemail with XMMS

Posts: 49 · Full Forum Member Joined: Jan 28, 2005 Posts: 49

I have been using Vonage's voicemail on Linux for quite awhile. At some point (last year, maybe?) the voicemail WAV files quit working with XMMS. I was able to play them in kaboodle on my laptop, but now I am spending more time on my office PC and can't find a player under Mandrake 9 that can play it. Was there a CODEC change? Do I need to upgrade my libwav or install a plugin that can deal with Vonage wav files?

Thanks in advance,
--Terry

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fatboyntn wrote:

I have been using Vonage's voicemail on Linux for quite awhile. At some point (last year, maybe?) the voicemail WAV files quit working with XMMS. I was able to play them in kaboodle on my laptop, but now I am spending more time on my office PC and can't find a player under Mandrake 9 that can play it. Was there a CODEC change? Do I need to upgrade my libwav or install a plugin that can deal with Vonage wav files?

Thanks in advance,
--Terry

I use Xine, with all the essential codecs from MPlayer. You may just need the codecs, tho.

Get the codecs from http://www.mplayerhq.hu/design7/news.html and goto downloads. Get the essential codecs, extract them to /usr/lib/codecs, then symlink /usr/lib/win32 to that.
Example:

Code:

ln -s /usr/lib/codecs /usr/lib/win32

Posts: 49 · Full Forum Member Joined: Jan 28, 2005 Posts: 49

Thanks CW. I think my version of mplayer is too old to support the "essential codecs" download. I could not get it to work with xine/mplayer. However I did find a nice utility called sfconvert. It is a part of the audiofiles package from some of the guys who used to be at SGI. It will convert the file to a regular WAVE file. Also I used sfinfo to determine the codec.

Quote:

File Format Microsoft RIFF WAVE Format (wave)
Data Format CCITT G.711 u-law compression
Audio Data 221760 bytes begins at offset 46 (2e hex)
1 channel, 221759 frames
Sampling Rate 8000.00 Hz

From what I have researched, XMMS is not going to support the G.711 codec.

I was able to get a player to work that is acceptable. I have RealPlayer (realplay) installed and it plays them just fine.

Again, thanks for ya'lls help.

--Terry