[MPlayer-users] Can you do this in mencoder ?

[Nico Sabbi]

Elena Bulanova wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I'm a new user of mencoder and after a day or two of reading the docs 
> and experimenting I can encode videos with lavc and lame.
> However I'd like to know if mencoder can encode audio to wma1 or wma2. I 
> believe these are the formats of the divx 3.11a audio encoders in 
> Windows (I used to encode videos on Windows using these as audio encoders).
> Can mencoder do this ?

in theory you can use libavcodec to encode to wma:

-oac lavc -lavcopts acodec=wmav2:abitrate=128  (or wmav1)

in practice I never tried wma, and it may fail.