[MPlayer-users] Adding amr support

[Dotan Cohen]

On 03/02/2008, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski <dominik at rangers.eu.org> wrote:
> On Sunday, 03 February 2008 at 20:58, Dotan Cohen wrote:
>  > Can I add amr support to an existing mplayer installation?
>
> No, you have to recompile.
>
>
>  > I have
>  > mplayer on Ubuntu and I need to play amr audio files from a Nokia
>  > phone. Is there a library (preferably deb format) that I can install
>  > so that mplayer will play these files?
>
>
> There is a library. I don't know if it is available in .deb format.
>  It might not be, because such build would be non-redistributable
>  due to restrictive licence of the reference AMR decoder sources
>  used in that library. So, until someone writes a free AMR decoder,
>  you're stuck with compiling what's available on your own.
>
>  Regards,
>  R.

Thank you Dominik. Is this the required package:
http://svn.mplayerhq.hu/soc/amr/ ? What must I install from that page?
Then, how does one go about compiling? I'm sorry for the questions
that I know are at a beginner level, but the only info that I can find
regarding compiling is ./configure make make_install, not anything
regarding custom mplayer builds with unusual options. I'm on Ubuntu
7.04 with KDE if it makes a difference.

Would it be easier to install from SVN? How to do that and enable amr?

Dotan Cohen

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