[MEncoder-users] Trying to use Nero's AAC encoder, having trouble converting audio to intermediate lossless format

[The Wanderer]

Grozdan wrote:

> 2009/4/23 Andrew Berg <bahamutzero8825 at gmail.com>
> 
>> RC wrote:
>> 
>>> mplayer -ao pcm
>> 
>> I did not think of looking into MPlayer's options (I don't use
>> MPlayer much). While looking around, FFmpeg does the trick, so I've
>> been using that. In fact, since FFmpeg will convert to FLAC
>> properly (FLAC is lossless and I will end up writing less to disk,
>> so it should save some time), and flac will decompress to stdout in
>> a format that neroaacenc understands, the following seems to work
>> well:
>> 
>> ffmpeg -i test.mpg -vn -acodec flac -ac 2 -ar 48000 test.flac&&flac
>> -d test.flac -c | neroaacenc -q 0.4 -if - -of test.m4a
>> 
>> It'd be nice if I could pipe right into Nero's encoder, but this is
>> almost as good (although the console output gets messy with flac
>> and neroaacenc writing on the same line).
> 
> you may want to add 2>/dev/null at the end of the ffmpeg line to
> suppress ffmpeg messages

And/or output to a named pipe, then have the other process read from
that pipe in a separate terminal, so that the messages don't get
mixed... though I'm not sure how to go about doing that in Windows.

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