[MEncoder-users] select 3rd of 3 audio streams out of td-file

[Nico Sabbi]

Henning Storz wrote:

> I'm new to using mencoder 1.0pre5-3.3.3 a (on fedora core 2).
> I'm trying to encode a TS-stream-file -->mpeg4. The TS-file contains 3 
> diffrent audiostreams, the 3rd of them, the one i want to extract is 
> AC3. Unfortunately i can't get it copied into the encoded avi file.
>
> im calling mencoder with the following basic options:
> mencoder -ovc lavc -lavcopts 
> vcodec=mpeg4:threads=2:acodec=ac3:vbitrate=1200 -oac lavc   -o 
> test.avi test.ts
>
> In order to use the 3rd Stream (ac3) i tried  to the "-aid" option to 
> mencoder but that dind't work.
> Any suggestions?
>
> Thank's for reading
>

if mplayer can play the file with -aid <num> then mencoder will work 
equally.
If not use a larger -tsprobe e.g. -tsprobe 5000000.
If  it still doesn't work send me the compressed log of mplayer -v 
-tsprobe 10000000 file.ts, please