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

[Patrick Kirchner]

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

Thanks for taking another look for me Rich.  I've
found that if I use mono sound I can get better a/v
performance out of my Toshiba Libretto 100CT 150Mhz
MegaMonster Movie machine ;)

Should I submit a bug report for this?

Thanks much,
Patrick.

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