[LAU] Which app to use for .gsm-files?

[Justin Smith]

On Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 9:42 AM, Julien Claassen <julien at c-lab.de> wrote:
> Do sox and mplayer need something special to do so? Because my mplayer
> refuses to play my .gsm files. They are generated by asterisk. Perhaps this
> is enlightening.
>  Kindest regards and thanks for the quick response in any case!
>          Julien
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If I recall correctly, gsm is not quite free, and I needed to compile
mplayer myself in order to use it. sox mentions gsm explicitly in
their manual page, but may also need a hand compile to activate it(?).

Evidence that as recently as 2006, mplayer played gsm:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=399606