[MEncoder-users] avi with pcm sound to avi with mp3 sound

[D Richard Felker III]

On Tue, Mar 01, 2005 at 10:15:18PM -0800, Scott wrote:
> Thanks for the input.
> 
> The "-noskip -mc 0" got rid of the "Skipping frame!" messages, but the dead
> audio/mp3 still exists.
> 
> To answer the "What are you using to record these AVIs?", I am doing everything
> with mencoder/mplayer.  As I mentioned (barely) before, I could never get
> mencoder (using btaudio) to record anything but pcm.  I had been putting up
> with the resulting huge avi files, but that is wearing thin now and so I am
> trying to resolve the lack of mp3 problem after the avi/pcm has been recorded
> and therefore get the btaudio out of the picture.
> 
> Since my system has no problems using lame by itself (wav to mp3, no problem),
> I would think that mencoder could convert the audio to mp3 with no problems.
> But, I guess that is why I am asking questions here...
> 
> I'm only a rookie mencoder/mplayer user, but it seems as if mencoder is
> failing to use lame or is using it improperly on my system.
> 
> Thanks again for you ideas.

My guess is that btaudio is giving you sound at a highly nonstandard
samplerate, whereas mp3 only supports a few fixed samplerates. But
it's impossible for us to tell what's wrong without seeing your
command lines and mencoder/mplayer output. Try setting mencoder's tv
capture to use 32000 hz audio sampling, and if that doesn't work, post
a proper error/bug report here so we have enough information to try to
help you. BTW please don't top-post when using mailing lists.

Rich