[MPlayer-users] Video stream mandatory while converting .rm to .mp3. Bug?

[Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski]

On Friday, 05 March 2004 at 17:56, Abraham S. Lin wrote:
> Adam Rice wrote:
> 
> >That may be the best bug report I've ever seen. But you seem to have 
> >ommitted
> >one crucial piece of information: the command-line you were using. I'm
> >guessing that the -novideo commandline option might help you, but I can't
> >guarantee it.
> >
> >Adam
> >
> > 
> >
> Hi, Adam,
> Thanks.. I try my best.
> 
> The command line goes:
> mencoder -v -v -v -novideo -ac lavc Video_stream_mandatory_bug.rm -of 
> mpeg -o test.mp3

MEncoder is a *movie* encoder. It cannot encode to audio containers. Just
decompress the audio using mplayer -ao pcm and encode it by calling lame
directly.

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