[MPlayer-users] Can't encode a DVD to an AVI with MONO sound :(

[D Richard Felker III]

On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 02:36:51PM -0800, Patrick Kirchner wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]

> 
>  D Richard Felker III <dalias at aerifal.cx> wrote: 
>  Hello,
> SNIP
> 
> -lameopts vbr=3 vol=10 mode=3 -o                                      
> ^      ^
> You need colons here!!!!! RTFM.
> 
> Rich
> 
> I've been reading the manual and trying to get this to work for the past 5 hours :(  I swear I'm doing it right but it still creates 2 channel audio.
> 
> Could someone please spell out for me the correct syntax for creating MONO audio?
> 
> -oac mp3lame -lameopts mode=3 -o somemonofile.avi
> 
> The above is what I believe should work, but it doesn't create 1ch audio :(

Hmm, yes, something is wrong. Actually, it DOES produce mono mp3
audio (try dumping it with -dumpaudio then playing stream.dump in an
mp3 player), but it puts the wrong values (stereo) in the avi header.
Thus the resulting file may be unplayable except on mplayer.

Apparently you're the first person ever to be interested in mono... :)

Rich