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

[Nico Sabbi]

Hans Spath wrote:

> 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
>
-of rawaudio