[MPlayer-dev-eng] mencoder not encoding ac3 on macOSX

[Reimar Döffinger]

On 1 Mar 2011, at 04:53, Alexandre Roberto Zia <alexandre at zia.com.br> wrote:
>  I'm having a problem with mencoder latest svn version:
> 
>   ffmpeg can produce an AC3 audio file:
> ffmpeg -y -i video.mkv -acodec ac3 -ac 6 -ab 384k -ar 48000 -f ac3 audioout
> 
>   but mencoder not:
> mencoder" -ss 0 video.mkv -channels 6 -ovc copy -of rawaudio -mc 0 -noskip -oac lavc  -lavcopts acodec=ac3:abitrate=384 -af lavcresample=48000 -srate 48000 -o audioout -v

I suspect this has to do with the AC3 encoder now requiring float input, I suspect ae_lavc cannot yet pass through float to the encoder.
Shouldn't be that hard to fix (since you're posting to -dev-eng and not to -users I assume you'd like to try fixing it yourself).