[MPlayer-users] resampling frequency using mencoder and lame

[Mariusz Woloszyn]

On Thu, 1 Aug 2002, Diego Biurrun wrote:

> > p.s. the manpage should definitely describe this behavior for mencoder in
> > a little bit more verbose way ;)
>
> Please read DOCS/tech/patches.txt and send a patch, we are all really
> flooded at the moment.  If that is too much work/too difficult just suggest
> some updated wording in a mail here and I will add it to the docs.
>
I doubt I'm the right person to express the real functionality of this
mencoder option properly. Moreover I don't even know how are you building
the manpages ;) In case of mplayer I'm just a poor luser :)

Anyway:
I'd put following sentence as -srate option explanation:

       -srate <Hz>
              Reencodes audio to specified sampling frequency.
              For mplayer it affects playback speed as it suncs video
              to audio.
              For mencoder it gives audio stream with resampled Hz
              frequency as a result (may be saved directly to an output
              file or encoded with audio codec).


p.s. what does the following commad do:

mencoder file.mov -srate 8000 -oac copy -ovc copy -o output.avi

Does it first resample audio to specific sample rate (with lame?) and then
copy it (in original format, pcm, mp3?) or just copy the stream
without resampling?


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Mariusz Wołoszyn
Internet Security Specialist, Internet Partners