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Date:      Thu, 29 Apr 2004 22:12:13 +0200
From:      Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@Leidinger.net>
To:        freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: stdout from mplayer/mencoder?
Message-ID:  <20040429221213.51668144@Magellan.Leidinger.net>
In-Reply-To: <20040429193023.GA17876@cl.cam.ac.uk>
References:  <20040429175118.GA24989@cl.cam.ac.uk> <20040429210554.2e301a3f@Magellan.Leidinger.net> <20040429193023.GA17876@cl.cam.ac.uk>

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On Thu, 29 Apr 2004 20:30:23 +0100
Karl Jeacle <karl@jeacle.ie> wrote:

> On Thu 29 Apr 04, 21:05:54 +0200, Alexander Leidinger wrote:
> > > 	mplayer -ao pcm -aofile /dev/stdout $RAFILE | lame - $MP3FILE
> > > The problem is that the resulting MP3 file is just white noise. I'm not
> > > sure what's going wrong. (I've tried specifying -r & -s lame flags.)
> > But you haven't played with '-x', right?
> 
> I have actually, and I get audible sound, but it's as if I had taken the
> original file and chopped it up into little bits and swapped them around.
> 
> I was hoping someone could supply a working command line example using
> either mplayer or mencoder that did RA->MP3 in a single pipeline.
> 
> (Re:mencoder, it dumps core for almost anything I try with it, and using
>  named pipes exhibit the same problem as the above pipe approach.)

I haven't tried it, but try adding "-nowaveheader" to mplayer and use
the right -r -s and --bitwidth arguments for lame.

I know it works with named pipes, since I fixed some issues with it for
someone else (lame 3.94 contains the fix).

Bye,
Alexander.

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