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What is a .3GP file?

3GP is a mobile video container used by older phones.

Did you know
  • 3GP was created for the first 3G mobile phones in the early 2000s.
  • 3GP is the 3GPP container for GSM-network phones, and it shares the ISO base media file format with MP4, so the two are close cousins internally.
  • It was deliberately kept lean on storage and bandwidth so the first camera phones could capture and multimedia-message short clips.
  • 3GP commonly pairs H.263 or MPEG-4 video with AMR speech audio, a combination chosen for low-power mobile hardware.
  • Its CDMA-network counterpart is 3G2, which swaps in CDMA-specific audio codecs but keeps the same overall structure.
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Open a .3GP file
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Related formats
.MP4 · .MOV · .AVI · .MKV · .WebM · .WMV · .FLV · .3G2 · .MPG · .MPEG · .MTS · .M2TS · .TS · .VOB · .OGV · .H264 · .264 · .AVC and more. See all supported file types.