On 2010-03-14 06:32, Mathieu Malaterre wrote:
Hi there,
I am trying to read a wav file using totem. However it fails with
the following:
$ totem bla.wav
** Message: don't know how to handle audio/x-alaw, rate=(int)8000,
channels=(int)1
You must be European.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%9C-law_algorithm
The µ-law algorithm (often u-law, ulaw, mu-law, ...)
is a companding algorithm, primarily used in the digital
telecommunication systems of North America and Japan.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A-law_algorithm
An A-law algorithm is a standard companding algorithm,
used in European digital communications systems
$ file foo.wav
foo.wav: RIFF (little-endian) data, WAVE audio, ITU G.711 mu-law,
mono 8000 Hz
Try this:
$ apt-file search alaw | grep gstream
Do you have gstreamer0.10-plugins-good installed?
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