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My better half was organizing pictures and videos in her PC. She came to me and asked, what is this file with 3gp extension. "My PC is not showing or playing it". Luckily there was a telco guy in the family who had the answer. File was from mobile phone and it was a video file and Windows XP was not able to show it.
You know that I'm traumatized by MMS. MMS rollout changed my view about telco services. Wireless Village was the final nail to the coffin what comes to my belief in telco services. There were many reason why I didn't like MMS and I have written about those in here earlier. One reason a poor interoperability with internet services and PCs (video format is a good example). I thought that things have changed during the years and maybe over 5 years old service has good support in different domains. Interoperability must be there, we have Microsoft in the game now, they have well over 10% global market share of smartphones and working closely with operators so there must be support some main telco formats also in PC. Out of box Windows Media player was not able to show 3gp file, fine. Maybe there is easy solution and plugin available for download. I spent some 30 minutes searching from web 3gp plugin for Windows Media Player, couldn't find it. My conclusion, Windows Media Player doesn't support 3gp files.
I know there are other solution like PC Suite, QuickTime or numerous conversion software. She doesn't want to install extra applications to her PC, they will slow it down eventually. Old 3gp videos from Angkor Wat remained black boxes in the Windows file explorer.
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For 3gp files I have Quicktime Alternative installed on my computer (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QuickTime_Alternative). I don't think it's some extra application, just a codec package. With this codecs it is possible to watch 3gp videos in Windows Media Player (I use WMP 9).
Posted by: AquariusThank You Aquarius!
I knew there is a solution and I just have limited patience.
Open platforms rule!
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