[MPlayer-users] trouble loading theora codec

[RC]

On Wed, 16 May 2007 16:46:49 -0500
Tom Poe <tompoe at fngi.net> wrote:

> $> mencoder summit07_eben1.ogg -oac mp3lame -ovc lavc -ofps 30 -vf 
> scale=320:240 -o summit1.mpg
> 
> Thanks, much, RC.  I used the command above (found it on 
> http://nlindblad.org/2007/01/28/screencasting-and-youtube-compliant-encoding/

Whoever came up with that hasn't got the slightest idea what they're
doing.  I suggest you refer to the MPlayer encoding guide instead.

> $ mencoder summit07_eben1.ogg -oac lavc -ovc lavc -ofps 30 -vf 
> scale=320:240 -o summit2.ogg
> 
> That did not work much better than the original.

Changing the filename has no effect at all.  You are only changing the
audio codec to MP2 instead of MP3.