[MPlayer-users] Encoding 5.1 to stereo with framecopy

[Daniel Moreno]

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charles.francoise at epfl.ch wrote:

|I always use the -oac copy option with mencoder so that I get the
best possible
|sound. But I have this DVD with only the 5.1 audio track. Each time I
encode
|with -oac copy, I get this gigantic audio track (448 kbit/s instead
of the usual
|192).

"-oac copy" means, surprisingly, COPY.

So, if the DVD has a 5.1 audio track at 448kBit and you tell mencoder
to copy it, then he copies it and you end up with a 5.1 audio track at
448kBit as a result. I don't think it's that hard to spot. The 192
kbit you mention is probably from DVDs with stereo MP2 audio, which is
often encoded at 192.

If you want to get something smaller you have no other method than
reencoding. I'd sugest vorbis, but we've allready had a vorbis
discussion today. ;-D

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