[MEncoder-users] Problems with mencoder on Win32 and MKV

[Joey Parrish]

On 4/23/07, Berend Dekens <cyberwizzard at sportlaan.adsl.utwente.nl> wrote:
> Joey Parrish schreef:
> > Try another audio codec (not -oac lavc).  There are bugs there that
> > have yet to be tracked down and fixed.  For me, anything I produce
> > with -oac lavc is broken in that exact way.  Alternately, you can play
> > the broken file back correctly with mplayer -nobps or mplayer -demuxer
> > lavf, I think.

> I can't find any manual anywhere tbh, lavc seems to be a certain
> processing library if I'm not mistaken for video and audio. So why does
> it have issues with MKV files? Because everything in a AVI container
> works fine.

I didn't say anything about issues with MKV files.  I said that -oac
lavc may produce problems itself.  I cannot get working files with
-oac lavc unless I play them back with special options.  So if you
must have mp2, try another mp2 encoder.  Like twolame or toolame.

--Joey