[MEncoder-users] Re: Native Vorbis audio support in libavcodecs/MEncoder?

[Reimar Döffinger]

Hello,
On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 07:20:08AM -0500, The Wanderer wrote:
> Grozdan Nikolov wrote:
> >Maybe a silly question, but why isn't there native Ogg Vorbis
> >support in libavcodecs? I mean, I can encode the audio of my DVDs
> >to MP3 (if linked to libmp3lame) or AC3, but MEncoder does not
> >support encoding directly to Vorbis audio... Why is that?
> 
> You *can* encode Vorbis audio with MEncoder.
> 
> mencoder -oac lavc -lavcopts acodec=vorbis
> 
> Not every container format can necessarily hold Vorbis audio, at least
> not cleanly, but the encoding capability is certainly there.
[...]

If that uses the native ffmpeg encoder it can safely embedded in any
container that supports "arbitrary" audio codecs (AVI, mkv etc.).
But this encoder does have comparatively poor quality since it lacks a
psychoacoustic model.

Greetings,
Reimar Döffinger