[MPlayer-users] mencoder: flac audio output?

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> I'm trying to convert this ASF file (just audio) with:
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>  mencoder stream.asf -oac lavc -lavcopts acodec=flac -o output.flac
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> but Mplayer complains with "Video stream is mandatory!"
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> I tried:
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>  mencoder -novideo stream.asf -oac lavc -lavcopts acodec=flac -o output.flac
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> but it get the same message.  Is this possible at all? Any ideas?
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>
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To convert with mencoder you should:
1. make a fake blank video of the exact lenght of your audio file (in 
windows via avisynth)
2.convert this temporary audio+video stream with mencoder
3. use mplayer with -dumpaudio to demux the stream
4. delete temporary files.

To convert with flac tools you can:
1.use the command line flac.exe 
(http://flac.sourceforge.net/documentation_tools_flac.html#usage)
2. or GUI provided by Foobar
*in one step.

*Converting from a lossy to a loseless codec will not increase quality.
Ogg vorbis could be a good opensource alternative.
DR