[MPlayer-users] Encoding several languages (from a DVD)

[D Richard Felker III]

On Sat, Apr 05, 2003 at 02:14:14AM +0900, Kalin KOZHUHAROV wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> Hi all!
> 
> I was trying to encode DVDs lately, but I want to keep several languages.
> I guess there is a way to put two audio streams in a single avi (or ogg?), 
> but I am not so interested in that.
> 
> I would like to have one (say English) audio + video AVI file and several 
> audio only files. So, when I need another (say french) language, I just do 
> something like:
> 
> cat movie.en.avi | mencoder -ovc copy -oac copy -audiofile audio.fr.avi -o 
> movie.fr.avi -

Why the cat/pipe??? I see no point in that...

And why not just use mplayer movie.en.avi -audiofile audio.fr.mp3 when
you want to watch the movie with french audio?

Rich