[MEncoder-users] "MPEG: No audio stream found -> no sound." problem for mpg file with sound

[Reimar Döffinger]

On Thu, Dec 04, 2014 at 04:38:59PM -0600, Volker Quetschke wrote:
> On 12/4/2014 12:57 AM, Andrew Udvare wrote:
> >> On 2014-12-03, at 14:16, Volker Quetschke <vquetschke at googlemail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> I recently updated my mplayer/mencoder version from r34401 to current versions and I found the the
> >> new mencoder versions are not able anymore to find audio streams in mpg files. As a result the
> >> encoding fails, see stdout/stderr below.
> >>
> >> I used the following command line:
> >> $ mencoder.exe "i:\example.mpg" -ovc xvid -xvidencopts fixed_quant=4 -oac mp3lame -o "i:\example.avi"
> > Please switch to ffmpeg. mencoder is not maintained any-more.
> >
> > ffmpeg -i "i:\example.mpg" -c:v libxvid -vtag xvid -vf "fixed_quant=4" -c:a libmp3lame "i:\example.avi"
> >
> > should give you the same (or similar) output, and maybe fix your issue.
> Thanks, but that was only an extra short example to demonstrate the problem.  I didn't know that
> mencoder was out of commission.  I guess ffmpeg can do everything (scaling, cropping, deinterlacing,
> etc.) that mencoder could do, so I "just" need to get used to a new program.

I'd expect that MPlayer can't play the file either though?
In that case it will be fixed. Though it might take a bit.