Is there a way to encode a multi channel wav file to an AC3 stream on the fly? sample multi channel file: http://www.halfgaar.net/media/chan-id.zip I tried the -af lavcac3enc option in mplayer, but I get an error: $mplayer chan-id.wav -ao alsa:device=spdif -af lavcac3enc=1 MPlayer dev-SVN-r26940 CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.60GHz (Family: 15, Model: 4, Stepping: 3) CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1 Compiled with runtime CPU detection. Playing chan-id.wav. Audio file file format detected. ========================================================================== Opening audio decoder: [pcm] Uncompressed PCM audio decoder AUDIO: 44100 Hz, 6 ch, s16le, 4233.6 kbit/100.00% (ratio: 529200->529200) Selected audio codec: [pcm] afm: pcm (Uncompressed PCM) ========================================================================== Audio LAVC, couldn't find encoder for codec ac3. [libaf] Couldn't create or open audio filter 'lavcac3enc' Error at audio filter chain pre-init! but mplayer -af help will show lavac3enc ... extrastereo : Extra stereo lavcac3enc : runtime encode to ac3 using libavcodec lavcresample : Sample frequency conversion using libavcodec ... Floris _______________________________________________ MPlayer-users mailing list MPlayer-users@xxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.mplayerhq.hu/mailman/listinfo/mplayer-users