[MEncoder-users] mencoder can't see audio

[belcampo]

Brian wrote:
> I've run into an unusual situation with mencoder. It only seems to
> happen with one particular DVD.
> I get the error:
> Selected DVD audio channel: 128 language: en
> MPEG-PS file format detected.
> MPEG: No audio stream found -> no sound.
> 
> Then it starts to encode the video, and it displays a 0 bitrate for
> audio ... like it's not doing anything with audio.
> 
> Then the encoding crashes with this error:
> Too many audio packets in the buffer: (4096 in 8253504 bytes).
> Maybe you are playing a non-interleaved stream/file or the codec failed?
> For AVI files, try to force non-interleaved mode with the -ni option.
> 
> Now, how can I have too many audio packets, if there's no audio stream?
> Here's my command line:
> mencoder dvd://23 -ovc copy -oac copy -o test.avi
> 
> I get the same error if I add -ni to the command line.
> 
> 
> Here's the most unusual part:
> If I execute
> mplayer dvd://23
> 
> It still gives me the "no audio stream found" error, but then it prints:
> Opening audio decoder: [liba52] AC3 decoding with liba52
> Using SSE optimized IMDCT transform
> Using MMX optimized resampler
> AUDIO: 48000 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 384.0 kbit/25.00% (ratio: 48000->192000)
> Selected audio codec: [a52] afm: liba52 (AC3-liba52)
> 
> It then plays the movie just fine, sound and all.
> 
> Any suggestions? I'm running version SVN-r28964-4.3.2
Maybe as a 'in between step' mplayer dvd://23 -dumpstream -dumpfile 
now-with-audio.mpg