[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] af_lame: pass-through MP3 encoder

[Rich Felker]

On Sun, Sep 24, 2006 at 01:33:31PM +0200, Nico Sabbi wrote:
> Martin Fiedler wrote:
> 
> >Hi!
> >
> > 
> >
> >>there's already mencoder -oac mp3lame for this job
> >>   
> >>
> >
> >Not really.
> >1. MEncoder always requires a video stream to work with.
> >2. MEncoder can't produce audio-only files.
> > 
> >
> for the same reason as 1).
> You could fix mencoder to produce audio-only files and send a patch
> 
> >3. mplayer -af lame will record *while playing back*.
> >
> >Martin J. Fiedler
> > 
> >
> 
> it's not a good reason to open and writing files from withing a filter, IMO

agree. a much more reasonable patch would be to tee the audio stream
out to a file/fifo so that an external process could do something with
it..

rich