Download 15mb a direct link to the software download. Yes, mencoder is creating a raw 264 and raw ac3 file. Mencoder ac3 has no sound when run with vlc ask ubuntu. These files can then be used in conjunction with vcdimager or dvdauthor to create discs that will play on a standard settop player. Mencoder gui s main aim is to enable even unexperienced. Download mencoder packages for alt linux, arch linux, centos, debian, fedora, freebsd, mageia, netbsd, openmandriva, opensuse, pclinuxos, ubuntu. Mencoder is a very powerful tool which is part of the mplayer software package. Mplayer is a commandline program and is best used with smplayer. Sometimes, when going from jpeg mpeg2video for dvds, i find it necessary to transition through mpeg4. As well as syncing codec support between vlc, ffmpeg and mplayer. Mencoder is a companion program to the mplayer media player that can be used to encode or transform any audio or video stream that mplayer can read. It relies on mplayer, mencoder, ogmtools, mkvtoolnix, mp4box, oggenc, lame. An overview of mencoder, the video encodingdecoding tool provided by. Encoding video with mencoder mencoder svn r34540 ubuntu with ac3 codec from lavc, results in no sound on vlc 2.
The problem is that while the input and output both have 6 channel ac3 sound, when the output file is played in anything but mplayer only the background sounds can be heard none of the other channels are heard. Mencoder gui s main aim is to enable even unexperienced users to convert dvds and other videos into desired format. Apr 25, 2014 mencoder is a companion program to the mplayer media player that can be used to encode or transform any audio or video stream that mplayer can read. Arch linux extra aarch64 official mencoder381572aarch64. For continued epg data, it is suggested to sign up for schedules direct, then use the builtin schedules direct epg support found in sagetv version 9. As a general framework, you can use the following to convert a video from any type that mplayer can read, to an avi file using mp3 audio encoding. The popular mplayer, xine and vlc media players use it as their main, builtin decoding engine that enables playback of many audio and video formats on all supported platforms. The latest version is featured under current release or on the downloads page. In order to specify the output file, you have to first use the o switch and then follow it by the output file name. It can provide easy access to all of mplayers features and features a.
By continuing to use pastebin, you agree to our use of cookies as described in the cookies policy. I also found that for some reason encoding audio in both passes sometimes helped keep audio sync, even though its discarded. For more advice on using mencoder i recommend taking a look at the encoding with mencoder chapter in the mplayer the movie player documentation other languages are available. The dvd, svcd, and vcd formats are subject to heavy constraints. There are two basic things you can do in the command line. Mencoder is capable of creating vcd, scvd and dvd format mpeg files using the libavcodec library. Also mencoder supports a lot of different libs, some are multi codec like lavc, others not, try. Audio and video codecs for encoding are selected with the oac and ovc options, respectively. On the other hand, for the maya in mexico and guatemala this date is more of a celebration of their survival against all odds.
Mplayer binaries and source code can be extracted using any archiving program compatible with the 7zip format. We have seen about 100 different instances of mencoder. I know i could use eac3to or ffmpeg, but i want to know if this is possible with mencoder. N1gg linux video information pages dvd ripping with mencoder. Supports hundreds of audio and video formats and codecs thanks to ffmpeg. Encoding media files in ruby using ffmpegmencoder with. Options may be set by specifying option value in the ffmpeg tools, or by setting. Only a small selection of encoded picture sizes and aspect ratios are available. Ive installed faac, libfaacdevel and libfaac0 from videolan repository. Avi ovc x264 x264encopts qp24 oac lavc lavcopts acodec ac3. The source is mit licensed and can be obtained from the github repository. Im currently using mencoder to turn bbc hd 1080i ac3 material into.
Avi ovc x264 x264encopts qp24 oac lavc lavcopts acodecac3. Media info tool and codec info from vlc say there os 5. Free command line video decoding, encoding and filtering tool. A complete, crossplatform solution to record, convert and stream audio and video. No import required which means native editing, plus multiformat timelines, resolutions and framerates within a project. The following example shows one way of encoding a file with lavc. Useful with brokenincomplete downloads, or badly created files. Then its just a matter of determining your options and video output type. Mencoder gui is easy to use application for video conversion. Regression with ac3 audio after planar audio support was. Home packages forums wiki bugs security aur download. Shotcut is a free, open source, crossplatform video editor. I have settled on using mencoder, the video looks fine but there seems to be a problem with the audio. The encoded video sounds ok on totem or mplayer but there is no sound on vlc.
To reduce the amount of spurious messages add the following things under the. Epg service shutdown 712017 v9 windows installer sagetv open source download area. Regression with ac3 audio after planar audio support was added. Dec 08, 2015 to use mencoder, you must specify at least an input file, an output file, an audio encoder and a video encoder. Howto convert avi to dvd iso in ubuntu ubuntu geek. We use cookies for various purposes including analytics. Dolby ac3 stereo, 48000 hz ffmpeg developers believe that the. Let us see the method to install mencoder on ubuntu in this article. You can do the same thing with the video part of the file. It is made from the same code base as mplayer, and so can read every file format supported by mplayer. In some recent versions of mencoder, the default framerate for ntsc with the following command comes out as 29 instead of 29. So mpeg2video is a codec from the lavc library used by mencoder engine. How to convert mkv to avi or ogm to avi using mencoder. The way i can obtain ac3 audio with mencodermplayer is.
Download beta it could be a beta, rcrelease candidate or an alpha nightly unstable version of the software. Installing mencoder in your ubuntu machine is as easy as installing the mplayer. The default output formats without any options are mpeg4 for video and mp2 for audio. Try dvdfab and download streaming video, copy, convert or make blurays,dvds. Clean streams from errors that occured in the transmission.