[MPlayer-users] mencoder general question

[Ralph Slooten]

Hi there all,

I just have a simple question. I have downloaded and installed the cvs
(20011108) and am now trying mencoder. I can encode from DVD, howver I get
no sound. I must be doing something wrong I guess, but I can't work it out
:-(

What I am trying is this:

mencoder -dvd 1 -chapter 5 -aid 128 -oac mp3lame -lameopts br=128 -o
film.avi

If I leave out the "-aid 128" it encodes without sound. Mplayer plays by
default this DVD in German, so I guess I have to use the same variables to
try english. When I use the -aid part, it bombs out saying:
============================================================================
Reading /home/studmuffin/.mplayer/codecs.conf: 21 audio & 56 video codecs
libdvdcss debug: GetASF authenticated
libdvdcss debug: already authenticated
Reading disc structure, please wait...
There are 37 titles on this DVD.
There are 38 chapters in this DVD title.
There are 1 angles in this DVD title.

libdvdread: Attempting to retrieve all CSS keys
libdvdread: This can take a _long_ time, please be patient

libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VIDEO_TS.VOB at 0x00056220
libdvdcss debug: vts key initialized
libdvdread: Elapsed time 0
libdvdread: Elapsed time 0
libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_01_1.VOB at 0x00056452
libdvdcss debug: vts key initialized
libdvdread: Elapsed time 0
libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_02_0.VOB at 0x000bf257
libdvdcss debug: vts key initialized
libdvdread: Elapsed time 0
libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_02_1.VOB at 0x000cce64
libdvdcss debug: vts key initialized
libdvdread: Elapsed time 0
libdvdread: Elapsed time 0
libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_03_1.VOB at 0x003647fa
libdvdcss debug: vts key initialized
libdvdread: Elapsed time 0
libdvdread: Elapsed time 0
libdvdread: Found 3 VTS's
libdvdread: Elapsed time 0
DVD successfully opened!
success: format: 0  data: 0x1C21D800 - 0x0

DEMUXER: Too many (4096 in 8257536 bytes) audio packets in the buffer!
(maybe you play a non-interleaved stream/file or the codec failed)
MPEG: Missing video stream!? Contact the author, it may be a bug :(
header block 1 size: 0

=======================================================================

I have lame (well liblame as you call it) installed with files:
/usr/bin/lame
/usr/include/lame
/usr/include/lame/lame.h
/usr/lib/libmp3lame.a
/usr/lib/libmp3lame.la
/usr/lib/libmp3lame.so
/usr/lib/libmp3lame.so.0
/usr/lib/libmp3lame.so.0.0.0

(Lame 3.89beta)

If I leave out the -aim 128 it encodes as I have said with no sound, and
gives thousands of lines like this example:

head_check failed A-V:-42.207 oAV:-42.271 diff:  0.020 ct:  0.046 vpc:  0.046

Any idea what may be the problem?

Many thanks in advance,

Ralph