[MPlayer-users] Encoding 5.1 to stereo with framecopy

[D Richard Felker III]

On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 08:47:17PM +0100, Daniel Kenzelmann wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]

> > Of course, but that doesn't really answer my question. I'm trying to get my 6
> > channels down to 2. So that the samplerate can get back to 192.
> number of sound channels does not directly relate to bitrate.
> 
> >  I might not be
> > able to use -oac copy but I can't manage to get the sound quality I want (And,
> > yes, I want pristine sound. Ogg Vorbis is great but pure sound copy is better).
> > 
> 
> What do you want to copy? to get from 6 channels to stereo you HAVE TO
> decode the audio and mix it. THEN you can reencode.
> There is no such thing as COPY 6ch to stereo.

Maybe he wants -oac pcm? :P

Rich