[MPlayer-users] Mencoder encoding to mpeg2

[Erik Slagter]

> > - from ffmpeg/libavcodec, only the video codecs are supported (duh...)

> to be precise ac3enc.o (like the other audio codecs) is always linked to 
> mencoder during compilation, but there's no
> interface to use them from mencoder. It's a pity :(
> Any volunteer to patch mencoder ?

As are all other audio codecs from libavcodec... only the interface
needs to be added...

> > - record using mencoder to avi using mjpeg from libavcodec and a
> >leightweight audio codec of your choice or pcm, then use ffmpeg on the
> >file to convert it to a vob/ps with mpeg2 video and ac3 audio. You can

> usually mplex and dvb-mplex work much better with dvdauthor

What do you exactly mean? To use mplex to join the audio and video
instead of ffmpeg? I can imagine that, but why exactly? Maybe that's an
(S)VCD issue? I only make DVD's... (using transcode, tcmplex and
dvd-author, btw, at the moment)