[MPlayer-users] "-acodec" and "-abitrate" options for "-lavcopts"

[Farrell Farahbod]

i was just looking through the mplayer/mencoder man page, when i came
across the section on "lavc (-lavcopts)" ... where some of the options
for it surprised me. "-acodec" and "-abitrate" are appearently for
audio...and i thought that was done via something like "-oac mp3lame -
lameopts ..." instead of part of -lavcopts. what is the difference? does
using the acodec and abitrate under lavcopts mean that you dont have to
use make "-oac ..." part for the command? is one way more standards
compliant and/or work better in win32?

thanks,

--farrell "upgrdman" farahbod