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

[Volker Quetschke]

On Thu, Dec 4, 2014 at 5:51 PM, Reimar Döffinger <Reimar.Doeffinger at gmx.de>
wrote:

> 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.
>

Just for completeness: mplayer actually played the file with sound,
although it throws the same error and complains about the missing audio.


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