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

[Michel Bardiaux]

rcooley wrote:

> On Thu, 15 Apr 2004 15:29:32 +0200
> Michel Bardiaux <mbardiaux at peaktime.be> wrote:
> 
> 
>>>I'd be willing to bet it can handle MP2 audio.
>>
>>Not in ASF/WMV. And even WMP7 and WMP9 reject MP2 there, though they 
>>accept mp3)
> 
> 
> Okay, that leads to the other question.  Is there some reason you must
> use ASF?  If the target is just WMP6.4 compatibility, you have other
> options.

Which ones? It *has* to be a streamable format (so AVI is out) and 
ultra-low-bitrate, down to ISDN rates (so MPEGs are out).

> 
> 
> 
>>>If not, you could always try avifile instead.
>>>
>>
>>Alas no, WMP is the mandated target.
> 
> 
> As Rich said, I was refering to using avifile for doing the encoding,
> rather than MPlayer/ffmpeg.  It should be able to encode wma audio.

According to avifile.sourceforge.net , DOCS, SUPPORTED COMPRESSION FORMATS:
...
# Audio
# Win32 ACM DLLs, decompression-only support:
Windows Media Audio ( also known as DivX ;-) Audio )
MS ADPCM
Intel Music Codec
...
It seems that *any* use of codec DLLs as encoder is simply not supported.

Looks like the *only* way is to use wm8eutil under wine, which seems 
possible - but the only pages I found so far are in Japanese!

HaND,
-- 
Michel Bardiaux
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