[MPlayer-users] Re: segfault in mencoder

Michael Waters stonin at rogers.com
Tue Mar 4 10:14:34 CET 2003


On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 02:21 -0500, Justin Moore wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> > > 
> > > The command line and output:
> > > 
> > > opus:~/media/vid$ mencoder -v -v -v -ss 0:00 -endpos 3:13 -o
> > > Helter_Skelter.mp3 -oac mp3lame -lameopts cbr:br=192:aq=1:mode=3
> > > sound.wav
> > 
> > Try this:
> > 
> > lame -b 192 -q 1 -m m sound.wav Helter_Skelter.mp3
> > 
> > Hint: mencoder is a movie encoder. It only outputs avi (or
> > experimentally mpeg) files with audio+video. Not .mp3 files.
> 
>    I should have been a bit more specific.  This is the full audio dump
> of a DVD I own (~2 hrs), and I'm trying to extract bits and pieces of
> the audio track in mp3 format.  Hence the -ss and -endpos options.  I've
> got a script that takes a list of start times, end times, and titles,
> and I want [ something ] to carve out the song in the time range and
> give it the appropriate title.  The easiest [ something ] I knew of with
> this capability was mencoder.  I'm open to suggestions for alternatives.
> 
>    Regardless, I figured the developers would want to know about this
> bug. :)

Maybe sox (using the 'trim' option) can cut up the wavfile and then
use lame to compress the pieces.

Michael



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