[MPlayer-users] Animatrix and -delay workaround

[Clemens Wächter]

On Mon, 07 Apr 2003 12:54:57 -0700
Corey Hickey <bugfood-ml at fatooh.org> wrote:

> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> Clemens Wächter wrote:
> > [...]
> 
> I think you have an extra step here. Rather than using mencoder -oac
> pcm, you can just use mplayer -ao pcm. Thus:
> 
> mplayer -aid 2 -ao pcm -aofile intro.wav detect_640_dl.mov
> mplayer -aid 1 -ao pcm -aofile main.wav detect_640_dl.mov
> 
> cat intro.wav main.wav > audio.wav
> oggenc -r -o audio.ogg audio.wav
> 
> If the wav headers get in your way, using -nowaveheader with mplayer -ao
> pcm might work for you.
> 
> I haven't actually tried this with that particular source material, but
> I think it'll work and save you some time.

Well, it works, but it doesn't save me time. mplayer still decodes the 
video. (ok, I didn't try -vc null and it just comes to my mind) but
mencoder -ovc frameno does it at maximum speed. Anyways, we are talking
about seconds here since the audio streams are about 90 MB small (pcm format).

-Clemens