[MPlayer-cygwin] NOVIRUS: ra -> mp3 conversion using mencoder

[Sascha Sommer]

On Tuesday 02 November 2004 13:06, Wrigley, Ave wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am trying to do a conversion from .ra to .mp3 using mencoder. I am
> using the windows binary from
> http://www1.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/win32-beta/. I am using the
> following command line options "-novideo -oac mp3lame -o foo.mp3
> foo.ra". Any idea why I am getting "Video stream mandatory"? I am using
> a -novideo option, although I guess maybe it is trying to create an AVI
> file with an MP3 audio stream?
>

mencoder can't create audio only files.
Use mplayer -ao pcm to generate a wav file from the ra file and encode it
with an audio encoding tool.

Sascha