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

[D Richard Felker III]

On Sat, Feb 28, 2004 at 12:09:02PM -0800, Farrell Farahbod wrote:
> 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?

The audio options under -lavcopts are for if you use -oac lavc
(libavcodec audio encoders). Support for them was only recently added.
This should allow you to encode mp2, ac3, etc. audio, but I'm not sure
if the quality is very good.

Rich