On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 12:50 PM, Ron Johnson <ron.l.john...@cox.net> wrote:
> 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 ต-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?
Yes, apparently it is there:
$ apt-cache policy gstreamer0.10-plugins-good
gstreamer0.10-plugins-good:
Installed: 0.10.8-4.1~lenny2
Candidate: 0.10.8-4.1~lenny2
Version table:
0.10.21-1 0
100 http://ftp.fr.debian.org unstable/main Packages
0.10.18-1 0
200 http://ftp.fr.debian.org testing/main Packages
*** 0.10.8-4.1~lenny2 0
500 http://ftp.fr.debian.org lenny/main Packages
500 http://security.debian.org lenny/updates/main Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
$ gst-typefind-0.10 /tmp/bla.wav
/tmp/bla.wav - audio/x-wav
Thanks
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Mathieu
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