[MPlayer-users] MEncoder & 6-channel audio: No dice

[Mark Fox]

Greetings:

	This is probably really obvious but I can't find anything in
the archives.  How do I get MEncoder to either encode audio from DVDs
as ordinary 2-channel sterio or 5.1?

	The ordinary:

  mencoder dvd://1 -ovc frameno -oac mp3lame -lameopts vbr=3 \
    -o frameno.avi

and desperate:

  mencoder dvd://1 -channels 6 -ovc frameno -oac mp3lame \
    -lameopts vbr=3 -o frameno.avi

do not work for me at all.  The first gives me what sounds like the
rear two channels of the 5.1 audio as front-left and -right.  The
second craps out with 'Too many audio packets in the buffer: (4096 in
8257536 bytes).'

	I'm using MEncoder 1.0pre2-3.3.2 from Debian.  The DVDs I'm
using are 'Matrix Reloaded' and 'Spirited Away'.  Mplayer has no
problems playing the DVDs, and with '-channels 6' the audio as well.

					Mark A. Fox