[MPlayer-users] Mencoder ignores the audio

D Richard Felker III dalias at aerifal.cx
Tue Nov 11 16:14:59 CET 2003


On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 03:08:04AM +0100, Oscar Sundbom wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> Hi.
> 
> I've been using MPlayer for quite a while now and have, in mencoder, actually found a piece of software that
> will allow me to capture (and compress) video from my GeForce2 and audio in real time without any jerkiness.
> For some reason, no windows drivers since Win98 have worked well - always something breaking up the frame-
> rate, not CPU inflicted - but mencoder manages it. Anyhow, I'm straying.
> 
> My problem is this: that's how it used to be. Once, for probably well over a year ago I could capture video
> and audio with mencoder but now, that is no longer the case.
> 
> For some strange reason, mencoder does not want to have anything to do with my sound. It's not that it encodes
> it but all I get is silence. It's not that it can't open the device. It's not that it doesn't capture it. It
> seems to just plain ignore using the audio it grabs.
> 
> I've included a (somewhat trimmed down) mencoder output log that probably explains it all much better than I will.
> 
> I launched mencoder with:
> mencoder -tv on:driver=v4l:width=352:height=288:audiorate=44100:adevice=sblive:amode=0:alsa:input=0:forceaudio -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4 -oac pcm -v -v > mencoder.log 2>&1
                                                                  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Huh? adevice should be a device name, e.g. /dev/dsp.

Rich



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