[MEncoder-users] How to convert an audio file?

[Hans Spath]

I have a realaudio file, created with "mplayer -dumpstream $URL". My
audio player (foobar2000) can not play it at all, and mplayer can not
seek in it. So I wanted to convert it to mp3.

My attempt[1] using mencoder for that task didn't lead to success.

Any suggestions / dirty tricks how I could achieve this goal even if
mencoder is not capable of handling audio-only files?

Btw. why can mencoder do an audio-only output (-of rawaudio) but can't
handle audio-only input?

PS: I use the Windows versions of mplayer/mencoder.


[1]
$PROMPT>mencoder interview.ra -oac mp3lame -lameopts preset=128 -of mpeg -o
interview.mp3

MEncoder dev-CVS-050626-17:02-3.4.2 (C) 2000-2005 MPlayer Team
CPU: Intel Pentium 4/Xeon/Celeron Northwood (Family: 8, Stepping: 3)
Detected cache-line size is 64 bytes
CPUflags: Type: 8 MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 0 SSE2: 0
Compiled with runtime CPU detection - WARNING - this is not optimal!
To get best performance, recompile MPlayer with
--disable-runtime-cpudetection.
File not found: 'frameno.avi'
Failed to open frameno.avi
success: format: 0  data: 0x0 - 0x331800
REAL file format detected.
Stream description: audio/x-pn-multirate-realaudio logical stream
Stream mimetype: audio/x-pn-realaudio
Video stream is mandatory!

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