[MPlayer-users] aac/dual core problems

[Zuxy Meng]

"Philip Schierholz" <17minus3 at gmx.de> ??????:20070730192823.77520 at gmx.net...
>Hello!
>
>I've got two questions about mencoder:
>
>1. I'm using mplayer to transcode a demultiplexed mpeg2 file. The input 
>stream formats are *.m2v for video and *.mp2 for audio. The output file 
>should be a *.mp4 container with a x264 video and aac audio stream. The 
>x264 transcoding is working well but i've got some problems with the aac 
>codec, using the option -oac faac. the mencoder is running but all players 
>I tried (vlc player, mplayer, windows media player, quicktime player) told 
>me they found an unknown audio codec.
>
>I tried to transcode the files seperately (video with mencoder, audio with 
>the faac programm) to multiplex both streams with mp3box, but the audio 
>transcoding doesn't work. the faac program told me "could'n open input 
>file". the transcoding with an wave file worked.
>
>my question: how can I use faac for audio, prefered with mencoder? do i 
>need a special compiled version of mplayer with aac codec or are there 
>special parameters i need to use for compiling mplayer to include aac?
>
>2. My encoding server is a xeon dual core maschine but I'm not quite sure 
>how to tell mencoder to use both cores. I know the autothread option für 
>x264 decoding. Is there any option to use both cores for divX encoding?
> Is there to posibility tell mencoder which core he should use for which 
> encoding?

I guess you may set the affinity for the mencoder process but I don't know 
the exact command to do this.
>
>i hope someone can help me!
>
>i prefer answers in german but english will do it as well ;-)
>
>Greetings Philip
>

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Zuxy