[MEncoder-users] How to get ".mp3" audio rather than "mp4a" audio?

[Sheppard, Mark]

On 17 November 2010 17:52 Reimar Döffinger wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 02:58:37PM +0000, Sheppard, Mark wrote:
> > So my guess is that the "mp4a" bit reported by mp4dump is some
> extra/diiferent chunk description thing, but the audio is still in MP3
> format, which is officially called "MPEG-1 Audio (11172-3)".  It's just
> that the flash player doesn't understand that and needs the old
> behaviour of having a file which has a ".mp3"
> chunk/header/tag/whatever.  Which is why I tried adding the " -fafmttag
> 0x55" option mentioned in the mencoder man page.  But that didn't help.
> 
> Ok, that confirms the suspicion I have from the start.
> Flash player obviously does not support the mp4 container format but
> only QuickTime/mov. If you use format=mov instead of format=mp4
> you should get .mp3 again.

Great - that works!

Thanks for your help,
Mark.