VLC won't play audio for .3gp files

[henibordin]

I love VLC but have run into a recent issue. We have a Sony Ericsson Z710i phone and recently downloaded some videos from it to our PC. Windows Media Player wouldn't play them so I turned to good ole VLC. It plays the vids no problem but there is no audio. I check the audio menu and choose Audio Track and choose Disable in hopes that that rectifies the problem but nothing. The other choice under Audio Track is Track One- {Japanese} whatever that means! When I choose that option, it gives me this error message:

No suitable decoder module:
VLC does not support the audio or video format "samr". Unfortunately there is no way for you to fix this.

The Sony phone plays the video with sound just fine so I'm assuming this is a VLC issue?

Can anyone help me out? THANKS!!!

[Lotesdelere]

Update your VLC.
Recent versions of VLC are able to play AMR Narrow Band aka SAMR.

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

And the latest version should play WB too.

[BDProductions]

I don't believe so.

I have VLC 1.1.11 The Luggage, and it does not play the audio portion of 3G2 videos shot with my Kyocera/Sanyo Innuendo phone, not older ones shot on my 5 year old Nokia.

In my case, the audio is not AMR though...

According to Wikipedia:
3G2

The 3G2 file format can store the same video streams and most of the audio streams used in the 3GP file format. In addition, 3G2 stores audio streams as EVRC, EVRC-B, EVRC-WB, 13K (QCELP), SMV or VMR-WB, which was specified by 3GPP2 for use in ISO base media file format.[12] The 3G2 specification also defined some enhancements to 3GPP Timed Text. 3G2 file format does not store Enhanced aacPlus (HE-AAC v2) and AMR-WB+ audio streams.[7] For the storage of MPEG-4 media (AAC audio, MPEG-4 Part 2 video, MPEG-4 Part 10 - H.264/AVC) in 3G2 files, the 3G2 specification refers to the MP4 file format and the AVC file format specification, which described usage of this content in the ISO base media file format. For the storage of H.263 and AMR content 3G2 specification refers to the 3GP file format specification.

Still, apparently VLC can't decode the audio.

I get a search again later message when I try to search, so that is why I am posting here, at the most relevant post.

GSpot won't tell me which audio compression is used either, so I certainly don't fault VLC for not being able to decode it either.

I hope one day VLC can though.

Thanks, Question answered before it was asked by me...

BDP

[VLC_help]

Please, share us a sample file.

[chemy112]

Hello, I'm having the same issues with videos I've downloaded from my LG EnV Touch. Video plays beautifully but no sound. It's a bit upsetting because the videos I have on there are from my baby lol. I can share one of the sample videos but not sure how to do it. If you could offer any assistance, it would be greatly appreciated!

[bat999]

I can share one of the sample videos but not sure how to do it.

Hi
Upload it to a file hosting site such as MediaFire.
Then post the link here.

[Layce68]

I am having the same issue. Watching my mother doing the monster mash playing Lets dance just isn't the same without the sound.

[cbaizen]

Please try this one:

http://www.mediafire.com/?wta9l85s1mtnacq

I recorded it with my verizon samsung convoy. VLC does not play the audio, but plays video.

[VLC_help]

http://trac.videolan.org/vlc/ticket/4255 there is a ticket for the Improper QCELP audio detection in 3gp2 issue.