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

[D Richard Felker III]

On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 04:02:08PM -0800, Patrick Kirchner wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> --- 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?

Yes, please do.

Rich