[MPlayer-users] AC3 encoding on the fly

[Reimar Döffinger]

On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 06:11:34PM +0100, Floris wrote:
> Is there a way to encode a multi channel wav file to an AC3 stream on 
> the fly?
> 
> sample multi channel file:
>     http://www.halfgaar.net/media/chan-id.zip
> 
> I tried the -af lavcac3enc option in mplayer, but I get an error:
[...]
>     Audio LAVC, couldn't find encoder for codec ac3.

I'd say you managed to compile against a libavcodec without AC3 encoder,
thus encoding to AC3 obviously can't work...