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Open 3GPP File

3GPP files are a media-type format that primarily belongs to Apple's QuickTime.

More about QuickTime

QuickTime is an extensible multimedia application framework developed by Apple Inc., capable of handling various formats of digital video, image, sound, panoramic images and interactivity.

In this case, 3GPP file is a media container file format for storing audio, video, and text data.

What is a media container file?

Within the multimedia realm, a container is a specification of how different types of encoded multimedia content are arranged within a file.

These different contents are usually, mainly, video, audio and text.

Containers are interpreted (opened) through a media player application, such as Windows Media Player, Quicktime (application with the same name as a container), VLC, Plex, RealPlayer or Winamp.

A video or audio file created with the 3GPP format usually has the 3GP extension but some may have the MP4 extension, MP4 being a container as well.

The 3GPP format was developed by the 3rd Generation Partnership Project, hence its acronym, as a standard to provide uniform playback and delivery of rich media content over 3G, 2G and 4G networks.

Audio streams in a 3GPP file are stored as AMR-NB, AMR-WB, AMR-WB+, AAC-LC, and HE-AAC, as specified in the MPEG-4 Part 12 standard format from which 3GPP derives.

The format uses video streams such as MPEG-4 Part 2, MPEG-4 Part 10 (AVC/H.264), and H.263.

Many third generation mobile phones still use 3GPP as the default format for recording video clips.

These 3GPP videos can be played with the phone's media player or a computer's media player.

Despite being a format initially adopted by QuickTime, today it is extended as a standard by many popular, everyday applications.

Software to open and work with a 3GPP file

Typical 3GPP application file locations:

  • C:\Program Files (x86)\QuickTime\QuickTimePlayer.exe "%1"
  • "C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Media Player\wmplayer.exe" /prefetch:6 /Play "%L"

Typical 3GPP mime types:

  • video/3gpp

Frequently used application names to open 3GPP files:

  • QuickTime
  • Windows Media Player

Frequently associated Windows objects:

  • QuickTime.3gpp
  • WMP11.AssocFile.3GP

How Can I Open 3GPP File on Windows

How Can I Open 3GPP File on Mac OS

How Can I Open 3GPP File on Android

If you downloaded a 3GPP file on Android device you can open it by following steps below:

How to Open 3GPP File on iPhone or iPad

To open 3GPP File on iOS device follow steps below:

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