DV to WAC with mencoder, encoding yound only

[jeff_porridge]

Hi,

I'm trying to encode video or audio from DV tapes.

I have no problem with the video encoding, I use a Perl script which goes like this :

 $DVGRAB --guid $ID1 --duration smpte=$TIME1 | $ENCODER - -demuxer 22 -cache 1024 -nosound -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4:vhq:vbitrate=2300:keyint=25 -o $FILE_C1.avi

But now I need audio only, and I tried this :

$DVGRAB --guid $ID2 --duration smpte=$TIME2 | $ENCODER - -demuxer 22 -cache 1024 -novideo -oac pcm -o $FILE_C2.avi

It doesn't start encoding and here is the reason I get :

No video encoder (-ovc) selected. Select one (see -ovc help).

I tried to select a video encoder, but it doesn't seem to help at all. Do I really need to select one if I want to encode audio only ?

I'm not sure I posted in the right forum, tell me if I didn't.

Thanks.

[Soopafresh]

Try FFMPEG.EXE instead of Mencoder. The two programs are similar, and FFMPEG should allow you to do audio only.

http://www.aziendeassociate.it/cd.asp?dir=/ffmpeg

This is for win32. There is also a linux version out there.