[MEncoder-users] mencoder -audiofile uses different bitrate

[The Wanderer]

On 11/04/2009 03:40 AM, Reimar Döffinger wrote:

> 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.

That wouldn't seem to make sense, given that the OP got different audio
bitrate results between playing the original WAV (64kbps) and playing
the file produced by using -oac pcm (128kbps). Or am I missing
something?

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