Decode and Play G729 on Windows

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Decode and Play G729 on Windows

the imax Uncategorized 2010-06-03 Decode and Play G729 on Windows Wireshark has a very nice feature that lets you play and listen to G711 streams present in a captured traffic dump file, unfortunately Wirehsark is not able to directly decode G729 However, you can still manage to play and listen to the G729 stream by using the following steps 1) Open the capture file using wireshark 2) Go to Telephony > RTP > Show all streams 3) That will open up a windows listing all detected RTP streams, click on any stream And select analyze 4) On the next windows click on Save Payload let the format be as raw, lets name the file as stream.raw So by now you have an output file named stream.raw , you will get an error if you try to play this file using any media player You , will need to first convert this saved stream to PCM format, a free decoder is available at http://www.voiceage.com /openinit_g729.php Download and unzip the decoder files on your PC in folder C:\g729de and than follow the below steps 1) 2) 3) Copy the saved stream file stream.raw to C:\g729de Open-up DOS command prompt and cd to C:\g729de Issue the following command in the command prompt window
stream.raw stream.pcm

va_g729_decoder.exe

So now you have the G729 converted to a PCM file named stream.pcm But the .pcm file contains 16-bit linear PCM samples at 8000 Hz. in Little -Endian format. To convert to .au format, you need to appened the 24 byte au header, and convert each PCM sample to network byte order (or Big-Endian). The following Perl Script as present on Wikeshak wiki page will be used to do the conversion
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# # USAGE: perl pcm2au.pl inputFile outputFile $usage = "Usage: 'perl $0 <source PCM File > <destination AU File>' "; $srcFile = shift @ARGV || die $usage; $dstFile = shift @ARGV || die $usage; open(SRCFILE, "$srcFile") || die "Unable to open file : $!\n"; binmode SRCFILE; open(DSTFILE, "> $dstFile") || die "Unable to open file: $!\n"; binmode DSTFILE; ################################### # Write the AU header ################################### print DSTFILE ".snd";

$foo = pack ("CCCC", 0,0,0,24); print DSTFILE $foo; $foo = pack ("CCCC", 0xff,0xff,0xff,0xff); print DSTFILE $foo; $foo = pack ("CCCC", 0,0,0,3); print DSTFILE $foo; $foo = pack ("CCCC", 0,0,0x1f,0x40);

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print DSTFILE

$foo;

############################# # swap the PCM samples ############################# while (read (SRCFILE, $inWord, 2) == 2) { @bytes = unpack('CC ', $inWord); $outWord = pack('CC', $bytes[1], $bytes[0]); print DSTFILE $outWord; } close(DSTFILE); close(SRCFILE);

Copy and save the above script in a text file named pcm 2au.pl in C:\g729de Google for Strawberry Perl and install in on your PC Now again fire -up the command prompt cd to C:\g729de And issue the following command
perl pcm2au.pl stream.pcm steream.au

And thats it , now you have successfully decoded the G729 on your Windows Computer and can play the stream.au file using any player like Windows Media Player or VLC player Related posts: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. How to run a FTP script in Windows? Not only Windows has a built-in command line FTP utility... Play mp3 in Linux If you want to play MP3s in Linux than a. .. Creating Tar.gz files in Windows You can open and extract the content from gzipped in... Windows Standby / Hibernation & Network Connections Disappear I had been having this problems for many months, whenever... Windows reboots during booting Once again Windows Troubles, last week I turned off the... How to Show arp entries in Windows arp a Displays the ARP entries in Windows by checking...

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5 comments untill now

1. Anderson @ 2010-06-09 21:10

I cant decode with the perl command, it just open a window Windows Cannot Execute the Program .. 2. Pat @ 2010-06-09 22:51

There is a problem with line 12 of the script. It should read open(DSTFILE, > $dstFile) Looks like HTML has screwed this up 3. the imax @ 2010-06-10 05:57

@Anderson Have you installed Strawberry Perl ? @Pat Thanks for the tip , I have fixed that up

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Decode and Play G729 on Windows 4. Charles @ 2010-06-20 15:16

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Hi, Ran the command, and got the following error message >perl pcm2au.pl stream.pcm stream.au Search pattern no terminated at pcm2au.pl line 49. 5. the imax @ 2010-06-20 16:04

@Charles Sorry, WYSIWYG had messed up the code, please again copy the perl code from above and save it to the pcm 2au.pl file. conversion will work now

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