Audio LAVC, couldn't find encoder for codec mp3.

[Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski]

Hi,

On Thursday, 27 September 2007 at 01:12, Troy Engel wrote:
> Fedora 7 - trying to re-encode some videos for my BlackBerry, I now get 
> this output:
> 
>   Audio LAVC, couldn't find encoder for codec mp3.
> 
> My commandline:  mencoder <INFILE> -o <OUTFILE> -of avi -ovc lavc -oac 
> lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4:vbitrate=230:acodec=mp3:abitrate=64 -vf 
> scale=320:180
> 
> This worked perfectly on FC6, I wrote a scriptlet that's used by a lot 
> of people - I'm trying to re-encode the same source videos to a new, 
> different resolution. A Google search returns two promising hits that 
> something changed in mencoder/mplayer CVS:

It makes no sense to use -oac lavc -lavcopts acodec=mp3 when -oac mp3lame
is available.

> http://lists.mplayerhq.hu/pipermail/mplayer-users/2005-November/056801.html
> http://lists.mplayerhq.hu/pipermail/mplayer-users/2005-November/056803.html
> 
> Those threads are old, but seem to mirror the exact situation that I 
> have now - lame (and every other audio/video package you can think of) 
> is installed, and this same problem happens on two different FC7 machines.
> 
> Anyone have an idea where to go from here? Is this something that could 
> be fixed in the RPMs, or....?

You didn't provide the mencoder version that you're using.

Regards,
R.

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