[MEncoder-users] AVI with more audio streams

[Giacomo Comes]

On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 04:54:46PM +0100, Duncan Webb wrote:
> SZABO Zsolt wrote:
> > It is not clear for me from the docs: can mencoder create AVI file
> > that is containing more than one audio stream? If yes how?
> 
> No it's a limitation of the AVI container.

Wrong. It is a limitation of mencoder. You can add more audio stream to an avi file
with avimerge.

Giacomo

> 
> Matroska containers can, plus the can have chapters, subtitles and metadata.
> 
> > 
> > E.g. I dumped two stream from a dvd:
> > mplayer dvd://1 -aid 129 -dumpaudio -dumpfile audio_1.ac3
> > mplayer dvd://1 -aid 131 -dumpaudio -dumpfile audio_2.ac3
> > 
> > And what next? (mencoder dvd://1 -ovc lavc -lavcopts \
> > vcodec=mpeg4:vbitrate=<etc.> -o dvd.avi ... ???)
> > 
> > 2nd question: is the two-pass encoding always risky concerning the A/V
> > desynchronization when not using the simple "-oac copy" option and one
> > should always check the obtained video, or is there a "foolsafe" way if
> > one wants to (re)encode the audio stream (e.g. with mp3lame)?
> > 
> > What does it mean: "As long as MEncoder _sees_ the audio.."
> > (in the paragraph starting with "You need to have Mencoder..." in
> > http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/HTML/en/menc-feat-dvd-mpeg4.html#menc-feat-dvd-mpeg4-audio)
> > 
> > 
> > TIA,
> > sZs
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