[MEncoder-users] mencoder -audiofile uses different bitrate

[Reimar Döffinger]

On Tue, Nov 03, 2009 at 06:07:00PM -0800, mencoder at perlmeister.com wrote:
> Just out of curiosity: If I wanted to recode the audio in PCM, but with
> a different bitrate or sample size, how would I tell mencoder?
> 
> "-oac pcm" doesn't seem to take any options and while the 'lavc' codec
> understands pcm_u8,

That is because the PCM encoder doesn't encode but actually just copies
the decoded data.
To modify the format use the normal filters like -af format or -af channels
etc.