[MPlayer-users] DTS audio question -- perhaps off topic

[Nico Sabbi]

The Wanderer wrote:

>
> ...news to me. Have I missed something? I certainly don't think it's
> possible for MEncoder to output (i.e. encode and mux) an audio stream
> without an accompanying video stream, and I don't think it has a lot of
> the features one might want in a full-fledged audio encoder - though
> I'll admit I don't know offhand what those might be, since I don't do
> much of any encoding myself (lacking both source material and hard disk
> space). In any case, I'm simply reporting what has been said by others
> since at the least shortly after I joined the list, which I have not
> seen contradicted since; if I'm operating off of out-of-date information
> somehow, I'd certainly like to know how.
>

mencoder doesn't output separate audio streams, but it encodes natively 
using 5 audio
codecs interfaces and more by means of lavc. It also has some useful 
audio filters, so
all in all I'd say mencoder can be considered an audio encoder, too, 
although not as
complete as other, more specific, tools.