Oh ok fine business on that. thanks for answering my questions.
Sincerely,
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From: "Christopher Chaltain" <cchalt...@austin.rr.com>
To: "PC Audio Discussion List" <pc-audio@pc-audio.org>
Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2009 4:53 AM
Subject: Re: 3gp
I can't answer most of your questions, but here are my thoughts.
First, I consider phrases like "world wide standard" to be more of a
marketing statement than anything else. Next, MP3 has been superseded by
several superior specifications in the past, and it's still around, so I
don't expect it to go away any time soon. The 3G in 3GP seems like it
would stand for "3rd Generation" as in the 3G high speed mobile network.
I'm guessing 3GP stands for "3rd Generation Partnership Project".
Quicktime runs on Windows and the conversion utilities I mentioned run
on Windows, so I don't think it's a Mac only specification. Furthermore,
it was intended for mobile devices. Finally, I can't speak to the sound
quality, but since it's intended for mobile devices and to be
transmitted over 3G networks, I'm guessing there's some trade off
between size and sound quality.
jason wrote:
So since this is the new standard conversions, is the mp3 file still
going to be used widely for a file extension, or is it going to go
away. what does the 3gp stand for? Also is this 3gp just used for
apple players or mac computers? and how rich does it sound. Does it
sound better than an mp3 or does the sound quality sound the same?
Sincerely,
Jason known as Blind Fury
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----- Original Message ----- From: "Christopher Chaltain"
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Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2009 11:07 PM
Subject: Re: 3gp
I never heard of this file extension before, but my first hit on
google.com lead me to http://filext.com/file-extension/3GP, where it
said:
3GPP and 3GPP2 are the new worldwide standards for the creation,
delivery and playback of multimedia over 3rd generation, high-speed
wireless networks.
Defined by the 3rd Generation Partnership Project and 3rd Generation
Partnership Project 2 respectively, these standards seek to provide
uniform delivery
of rich multimedia over newly evolved, broadband mobile networks (3rd
generation networks) to the latest multimedia-enabled wireless
devices. 3GPP and
3GPP2 are based on the MPEG-4 standard which was derived from Apple's
QuickTime. QuickTime 6.5 includes support for key components of the
3GPP and 3GPP2
specifications. The Macintosh type is: 3GPP
So obviously, quicktime will play 3GP files. A little bit of checking
revealed that quite a few of the audio/video converters will handle
3GP files including Switch and Replay Converter, the two that I'm
familiar with.
Andrea Sherry wrote:
What can I use to open this file type?
Can it be converted to say mp3?
Cheers
andrea
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