[FFmpeg-user] How to convert 48000/2/FLOATLE AC3 to 48000/2/S16LE MP3

[Rene Herman]

On 09-10-13 01:38, Carl Eugen Hoyos wrote:

> Rene Herman <rene.herman <at> gmail.com> writes:
>
>> It's just that the target does not support mp3float
>
> Sorry for being unclear before:
> There is no mp3float FORMAT.
> There is just mp3, this is what lame outputs, and
> it outputs mp3 no matter if the input was s16, s32
> or float.
>
> There is a mp3float DECODER in FFmpeg which outputs
> float (that is what you see with MPlayer by default
> because it is fastest), there is also a mp3 decoder
> which outputs s16, you can use it with:
> mplayer -ac ffmp3

Ah. Thanks much for clearing that up.... It seems, then, that the answer 
to my problem could in fact be that I don't actually have a problem. 
I'll not complain about that.

(the target-hardware bombed out on, an earlier attempt at, this same 
transcode and once I noticed this supposedly new-fangled "floating point 
mp3" format I assumed that must have been it, so I wanted to get it to 
standard mp3 before I reshared it with target-owner; but it seems that 
if it in fact still has a problem, I'll have to go look elsewhere)

> So your target simply can neither support nor not
> support mp3float, it either supports mp3 or does
> not support it (but it doesn't matter what you
> feed the encoder with, it can only output mp3).

Regards,
Rene