[MPlayer-users] missing audio under win98 with mencoder encoded files

[Gerhard den Hollander]

* Deepak <ae99008 at aero.iitm.ernet.in> (Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 02:01:44AM +0530)
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> i encoded some mpeg videos to divx using mencoder with libavcodec mpeg4 
> encoding for the video stream and streamcopy for the audio stream:

> mencoder -ovc lavc -lavcopts=mpeg4 -oac copy -o movie.avi movie.mpg

> the avi plays back perfectly in linux, using either mplayer or xine but 
> under windows, any media player (wmp, divx playa, sasami) can't play the 
> audio stream. 

Well, get a better player ;)

> as an aside.. how do i copy a vcd directly to a file. something like
> mencoder -vcd 2 -ovc copy -oac copy -o movie.dat
> copies the VCD to disk but without an index. i have to use -forceidx 
> everytime to play it. also, i have to know which/how many tracks are 
> present on the VCD (for the -vcd x) any better way to do this??

This is trivial.
1) mount vcd asa normal cd
   mount /cdrom
2) cd /cdrom/MPEGAV
    there you will find a bunch of files called something like AVSEQ??.DAT
    that's your mpeg streams
    cp -p AVSEQ* /somehwere/on/your/local/disk

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