[MPlayer-users] encoding ac3

[anders at gnulinux.dk]

Hi

I'm playing around with some dvd's and mencoder and the following question
popped up: Is it possible to encode ac3 audio with mencoder? The Docs
states that mencoder supports the following codecs: copy, pcm and mp3.
What I don't really understand is: "is ac3 a codec?" Or can I encode ac3
audio with the mp3 codec? Will the copy "codec" just copy and raw and keep
the ac3 "uncompressed"? 

This is what mencoder tells me about the audio:

AC3: 5.1 (3f+2r+lfe)  48000 Hz  384.0 kbit/s

Which is a quite high bitrate ;-)

Thanx in advance for any help.

-- 
Anders Rune Jensen
jabber: superduck at myjabber.net | email : anders at gnulinux.dk
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