AMR ("amrnb") decoder plugin not included in Gstreamer
Bug #184555 reported by
Martijn vdS
This bug report is a duplicate of:
Bug #93849: Feature request: Adaptive Multi-Rate Codec Support.
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| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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| gst-plugins-ugly0.10 (Baltix) |
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| gst-plugins-ugly0.10 (Ubuntu) |
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Bug Description
The "ugly" plugin set source has source for an element that can decode AMR (Adaptive Multi Rate NarrowBand (AMR-NB)) files but it's not included in the binary package.
My mobile phone makes these in "voice recorder" mode, and I'd like to be able to convert these files using gstreamer.
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| Fabián Rodríguez (magicfab) wrote | #1 |
| Changed in gst-plugins-ugly0.10: | |
| importance: | Undecided → Wishlist |
| status: | New → Incomplete |
| Changed in gst-plugins-ugly0.10: | |
| assignee: | nobody → magicfab |
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| exactt (giesbert) wrote | #2 |
| Changed in gst-plugins-ugly0.10: | |
| assignee: | magicfab → nobody |
| Changed in gst-plugins-ugly0.10: | |
| status: | Incomplete → New |
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| Mikko Ohtamaa (mikko-red-innovation) wrote | #3 |
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I've chosen this bug about including the Adaptive multi-rate compression (AMR) support in Ubuntu because getting this into gstreamer (although unlikely) would make media files that use AMR play OK in Ubuntu.
With Hardy, trying to play 3GP files (and presumably AMR audio only files) pops up a dialog without proposing download of the codec:
"An error ocurred - The playback of this movie requires the following decoders which are not installed:
Adaptive Multi Rate (AMR) decoder
H.263 decoder"
Direct support of AMR in Ubuntu is not likely to happen anytime soon, after some searching I think the clear explanation is the licensing and patents surrounding that codec.
To my knowledge VLC, mplayer and ffmpeg implement their own codec support, yet they would have the same licensing problem (dsitribution).
For more information see:
Discussion about AMR support in XineLib (2005):
http://
AMR reference implementation in Linux (see Legal disclaimer about distribution):
http://
AMR's entry in Wikipedia:
http://
Marking this as "whishlist, incomplete" as the licensing issue may be resolved later on but there are work arounds available online such as converting 3GP to other supported formats.