[MPlayer-cygwin] mp3lame encoding

[Emmanuel Crouvisier]

I just discovered mplayer and mencoder about a week ago for the cygwin
environment, and absolutely love it! Being able to encode DVDs directly
from the source is outstanding, however I'm running into some trouble with
the audio portion of the encoding.

When I set -oac to copy, the files are small, and the audio sounds great,
but only when played through mplayer. When I try to play a movie made with
-oac copy in any other player (ZoomPlayer is my player of choice in Win),
there's no audio at all. The -oac pcm option does produce audio that works
in all the players I've tried, but the files are of cours ehuge.

I noticed the use of the mp3lame library in some of the dvd coding
examples, and I was able to successfully download and compile the latest
version of lame in my CYGWIN term. 'make install' copied libmp3lame.a and
libmp3lame.la into /usr/local/lib, but when I try to reconfigure mplayer
to see that libmp3lame is now available, it's never able to find it, so of
course I can't encode with it..

I also managed to find a version with lame_enc.dll, and copied that into
my c:\windows\system32\ directory, but still mplayer's ./configure can't
find it.

What's the trick that I'm missing, or is it not possible to make this
work? I'd really love to get lame working so I can encode audio in a
reasonable way..

Thanks a lot!

- Emmanuel