[MPlayer-users] aconvert usage

[Marcus Blumhagen]

On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 10:08:03PM -0400, Chris Szilagyi wrote:
> Hello:
> 
> I'm trying to use the "aconvert" utility to convert some Real Audio files to
> Windows Media Audio v2 files.  However, I cannot figure out how to encode as
> a format other than MP3.  I read the README in the TOOLS folder but it
> doesn't have all of the options for this utility.
> 
> If I do: "aconvert realaudiofile.rm windowsmediafile.wma", I get an MP3
> encoded file.  I tried doing "aconvert realaudiofile.rm windowsmediafile.wma
>  -oac lavc -lavcopts acodec=wmav2:abitrate=44", but I get the error:
> 
> Option oac: Unknown suboption realaudiofile.rm
> Error parsing option on the command line: -oac
> Exiting... (error parsing command line)

Try putting the options in quotes, so your command line would read:

aconvert realaudiofile.rm windowsmediafile.wma "-oac lavc -lavcopts acodec=wmav2:abitrate=44"


Marcus

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