[MEncoder-users] greetings & question about rm2mp3

[Nico Sabbi]

Jiří Mothejzík wrote:

> Hallo,
> firstly I have one bug for report - when I wanted to subscribe by 
> clicking on recieved link, there was a "page doesn't exist" error. The 
> link was    
> http://mplayerhq.hu/mailman/confirm/mencoder-users/aa4b5bae9062b568d6beaa459a2b9949c14ef0fc .
>  
>  
> And now my question - is it possible to use mencoder to recode sound 
> files? I have some very nice language courses in real audio. But I'd 
> like to burn them and play in my stereo (with mp3 support). So what I 
> need is to convert all these files into mp3 files with similat quality.
>  
> I downloaded mplayer source and some codecs, putted codecs in correct 
> directory and compiled mplayer. But it seems to me that there are two 
> problems (one wouldn't be enough, sure):
> - "Video stream is mandatory!"
> - i don't have mp3 codec for encoding..?
>  
> When I try mplayer 01.ra, it seems it works (computer is my 
> fileserver, it doesn't have any graph. card nor sound card, but there 
> is status message saying "playing" and three counters running), so I 
> think decoding real audio is not the problem, problem is with encoding 
> it with mp3 codec.
>  
> Any ideas, please?
>  
> Thank you,
> JiMo:)
>  
>  
>  


if you want to compile with lame you must have lame libraries + dev 
package installed, then

mkfifo sound.wav
mplayer -ao pcm -aofile sound.wav file.ra &
lame ... sound.wav sound.mp3