[MEncoder-users] mencoder giving up because of too many audio packets?

[RC]

On Tue, 12 Jun 2007 04:35:39 +0000 (UTC)
Grant Edwards <grante at visi.com> wrote:

> I'm using mencoder to transcode the audio in ATSC program
> streams from A52 to MPEG3. 

MP3 is MPEG-1 Layer 3.  MP2 is MPEG-1 Layer 2.  

There's no such thing as a MPEG3 codec.

>     mencoder -quiet -noskip -of mpeg -mpegopts format=dvd:tsaf -oac
>     lavc -ovc copy -lavcopts acodec=mp2:abitrate=256 -fps 30000/1001
>     -ofps 30000/1001 -vc mpeg12 -o /myth/tmp/convert350.4706.tmp
>     /myth/tv/2021_20070611020000.mpg MEncoder 1.0rc1-4.1.2 (C)

-noskip almost never works without -mc 0 as well.  Try with both, and/or
neither.

When encoding to mpeg, you really should use -vf harddup.  You can
also try removing -of mpeg and see if you have the same problem with
AVI.

You can try -vc ffmpeg12 instead, it's more reliable.  You might try
-oac twolame instead of lavc. 

You should try a recent SVN snapshot before reporting problems.