[MPlayer-users] AC3 converting to lower bitrate

[Felix Buenemann]

On Thursday 13 June 2002 10:08, Ronald Goerke wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> Hello,
>
> I want to convert DVD to Divx with AC3 stream and play it over
> dvb with the "-ac hwac3" option.
> Is there a possibillity to lower the AC3 bitrate.
>
> I thought ffmpeg has some functionality to do this, but I'm not
> sure if mencoder provides these functionalities.
IMHO mencoder can't currently use liavcodec audio codecs. However I tried 
transcoding ac3 on win with besweet and ac3machine, which use ffmpeg code, 
and the quality wasn't very good (tried 224kbps and 256kbps).
> Thanks and best regards
> Ronald
>

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Best Regards,
        Atmos
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