[MPlayer-users] encoding ac3

[Stephen Davies]

On Fri, 31 May 2002 anders at gnulinux.dk wrote:

> Hi
> 
> I'm playing around with some dvd's and mencoder and the following question
> popped up: Is it possible to encode ac3 audio with mencoder? The Docs
> states that mencoder supports the following codecs: copy, pcm and mp3.
> What I don't really understand is: "is ac3 a codec?" Or can I encode ac3
> audio with the mp3 codec? Will the copy "codec" just copy and raw and keep
> the ac3 "uncompressed"? 

mencoder will re-encode the AC3 sound as a surround-sound downmix.

Steve