[MPlayer-users] dumping ac3 audio doesnt work.

[Dominik Mierzejewski]

On Monday, 09 June 2003, mdew wrote:
[...]
> to encode an ac3->mp3 what would i use?
> 
> cat stream.dump | mencoder -ovc frameno -o full.mp3 -oac mp3lame
> -lameopts abr:br=128 -
> 
> doesnt quite work out

Because it's not supposed to. You may use mplayer to decode ac3 into pcm
(and then pipe it through to lame or something), but mencoder is a movie
encoder, not audio encoder. You're using the wrong tool.

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