Hi Fazil, I went ahead and exported a Whats App conversation to my PC except I chose to save it directly to my Dropbox instead of emailing it in order to save myself one step of saving the attachment. The conversation was saved as a zipped/compressed file and I then right clicked it and extracted it to a folder.
Interestingly enough in this conversation which has something like 25 or 30 voice messages in it, most of them were in AAC format which I could easily play in Windows Media player or iTunes. However, as you said, some of them had the .opus file extension. Opus is a lossy format which is used a lot in interactive voice messaging applications and for Voip calls as it is a format which can adjust to the available bandwidth and hence produce the best quality possible. I Googled “How to play Opus files on the PC” and found out very quickly that the free VLC Media Player was the most popular choice. Apparently Foobar 2000 and Winamp can also play Opus files. I then Googled “VLC Media Player”, the first result was the main home page, I found the download link easily by using the Jaws Key + F7 key to pull all links in a listbox and typing “D” for Download. I downloaded and installed the application on my Windows 10 laptop (it will work fine on Windows 7 or 8/8.1) and then pressing enter on one of the .opus audio files started playing it immediately in VLC Media Player. You can pause and resume with the spacebar, but I did not play around with fast forwarding or rewinding, you would have to check how this works. Regards, Sieghard From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Fazil Sent: Sunday, May 29, 2016 6:07 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Playing A WhatsApp Message On Another Device? Hi, list. The voice messages that we get in whatsApp, can they be played on another device? The reason I am asking this is that I emailed a WhatsApp chat to myself and opened this email in my desktop computer. The chat attachment had the text message, an image file and the following audio file: 2016-05-25-AUDIO-00000001.opus. When I tried to play 2016-05-25-AUDIO-00000001.opus In Winamp or Total Recorder, I got the error message that this file can not be opened. My question is, Can the file with opus extension be played in WhatsApp only ? Thanks! -- The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your V iPhone list moderator is Mark Taylor and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at [email protected] The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VIPhone" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/viphone. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your V iPhone list moderator is Mark Taylor and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at [email protected] The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VIPhone" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/viphone. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
