[MPlayer-users] No audio encoder (-oac) selected

[Rich Felker]

On Sun, Apr 17, 2005 at 04:47:24PM -0500, Larry wrote:
> Rich Felker wrote:
> >On Sun, Apr 17, 2005 at 03:26:01PM -0500, Larry wrote:
> >
> >>I have upgraded MPlayer 1.0pre6-3.3.4
> >>Now when I try to record tv programs I get the following error;
> >>
> >>No audio encoder (-oac) selected
> >>
> >>I do have an aoudio encoder selected. I read the manpage and did
> >>mencoder -oac mp3lame on the command line and I still get the error.
> >>
> >>Here is the command line I used which has worked for a long time but
> >>not with the upgraded edition. Can someone tell me what's up?
> >>
> >>BTW, the way the TV works fine just running it on mplayer.
> >>
> >>
> >>time=$(date +%d_%m_%Y)
> >>
> >>/usr/local/bin/mencoder tv://14 -tv driver=v4l:width=320:height=240: \
> >>forceaudio:forcechan=2:norm=ntsc:chanlist=us-cable -oac mp3lame -ovc \
> >>lavc -endpos 01:00:00 -o show.$time
> >
> >
> >is this your literal command, including spaces and backslashes? if so,
> >there's your problem. there's a space in the suboptions to -tv, so
> >"forceaudio:forcechan=2:norm=ntsc:chanlist=us-cable" is treated as a
> >second filename to encode, and the -oac option doesn't get applied to
> >the first file (although it should be a global option..?)
> >
> >in any case please be sure you've given us the exact command line
> >you're using. i expect there's something silly going wrong.
> >
> >rich
> >
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> That was it!
> 
> I made the command on a single line without breaking the line with \
> and it works now. Sorry for the bother. Also I feel like an idiot. :)

it would also work if you split it, as long as you don't put a space
in the middle of the argument.. (i.e. put the \ immediately at the end
of the line without a space before it)

rich