mencoder problems

[hobbes487]

I tried using mencoder for the first time today and i am having a few problems. After encoding from the DVD with xvid, I watched the resulting .avi and it was dubbed in Spanish. I have no idea how this happened. This is the command i used to encode:

mencoder dvd://1 -dvd-device e: -oac copy -ovc xvid -xvidencopts pass=2 -xvidencopts bitrate=-1000000 -o test.avi

Any idea why I am getting the Spanish dubbed over the English?

[hellfred]

I tried using mencoder for the first time today and i am having a few problems. After encoding from the DVD with xvid, I watched the resulting .avi and it was dubbed in Spanish. I have no idea how this happened. This is the command i used to encode:

mencoder dvd://1 -dvd-device e: -oac copy -ovc xvid -xvidencopts pass=2 -xvidencopts bitrate=-1000000 -o test.avi

Any idea why I am getting the Spanish dubbed over the English?
DVDs have the nasty tendency to contain several audio tracks. So you should specify the one you like to have muxed into the avi with the switch -aid <ID> or the switch -alang <e.g. en>.
MPlayer will tell you the IDs when run with -v. See manpage of mplayer, available on your linux or cygwin shell, or at www.mplayerhq.hu->documentation

Hellfred

[hobbes487]

Thanks. I'll try that out