[MPlayer-users] Converting audio (ASF to mp3/ogg)

[j.a.l]

Moritz Bunkus wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
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> Hi.
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>>You can extract the audio to PCM (.wav) file, and then re-encode using
>>your favourite encoder. If you want to encode to mp3, the documentation
>>actually do help. Hint: look for -oac option for mencoder.
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> No. mencoder is a _movie_ encoder. Use mplayer -dumpaudio (or -ao pcm
> -aofile ...) to extract the audio into a WAV and then either oggenc or
> lame. mencoder cannot be used to encode audio only files.
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true : mencoder is a movie encoder ( and for far, the best ).
wrong : you do can create mp3 with mencoder / mplayer, useful when 
extraction audio stream of a movie to external audio ( additional audio 
language and you don't want to bother you with ogg... )

mencoder -oac mp3lame -lameopts <lame options> -ovc frameno -o audio.tmp 
<source, stream or dvd>
mplayer -dumpaudio -dumpfile audio.mp3 audio.tmp
rm audio.tmp

you may use fifo to avoid any use of hdd too.