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	RogerS	2008-04-11 , 20:35
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Originally Posted by qwerty12

Hmm, now I'm confused.

Installing mplayer amr shouldn't have affected the media player as media player wouldn't work with just those libraries on it's own.

Well, that makes sense to me. I don't know why Media Player plays the AMR file (which I gave a .amr extension to) when I double-click the filename in File Manager.

But it does. :-)

Originally Posted by qwerty12

Well, I provided mplayer as that is the first thing I thought of. But when I saw the limitations, I decided to do it for the media player.

For your instinctive response and for tackling the issue a second time, I thank you.

Originally Posted by qwerty12

I would still recommend installing the media player amr support as it provides proper gstreamer support (the media player backend) and shows the amr files in the library.

I'm happy to follow your advice, but what you mean by "media player amr support" isn't clear to me.

I previously installed the libraries you pointed to (in /usr/lib) and the mplayer-amr files (made executable and put in /usr/bin).

The second download you reference:

http://rapidshare.com/files/106591605/amr.tar.gz.html

looks to be different from the file with the libraries so I'll follow your instructions. If you mean something different by "media player amr support" please advise me.

Originally Posted by qwerty12

So mediaplayer will be the default to open awb files. mplayer will only open amr from the command line, when you invoke it manually. media player is much better for awb files than mplayer.

Sounds good to me.

I'll report back whatever I learn.

Thanks again,

Roger

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