Enable sound for 3gp videos in ubuntu using mplayer

To play 3gp videos with audio using mplayer in Ubuntu Jaunty, add the following line to your /etc/apt/sources.list file

sudo wget http://www.medibuntu.org/sources.list.d/jaunty.list --output-document=/etc/apt/sources.list.d/medibuntu.list

You need the GPG key for medibuntu packages. Get it the following way.

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install medibuntu-keyring

sudo apt-get update

now install the following packages

w32codecs mplayer mencoder amrnb amrwb

You should be able to hear the sound in mplayer now.

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4 Responses to Enable sound for 3gp videos in ubuntu using mplayer

  1. yochai says:

    After doing the above, I also had to install the amrwb package, then it worked.

  2. Ajo Paul says:

    @yochai, thanks have updated the same.

  3. numberformat says:

    Instructions dont work anymore. I get a 404 on the following URL: http://www.medibuntu.org/sources.list.d/jaunty.list

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