[FFmpeg-user] Configure the LAME Encoder

[Alex VD]

> Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2011 05:22:28 +0530
> From: de.techno at gmail.com
> To: ffmpeg-user at ffmpeg.org
> Subject: Re: [FFmpeg-user] Configure the LAME Encoder
> 
> On 12/14/11 07:03, Carl Eugen Hoyos wrote:
> > Alex VD<alexvd<at>  hotmail.fr>  writes:
> >
> >> I'm trying to encode in mp3 format with the LAME encoder in FFmpeg,
> >> but I would like to configure the stereo mode (Stereo, Joint Stereo,
> >> etc.).
> > FFmpeg currently only supports Joint Stereo and Mono when encoding with lame.
> > (What else do you need?)
> >
> > Carl Eugen
> >
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> As an alternative, you may use lame directly, or if you want this in a 
> video, you can first convert to mp3 using lame, then use ffmpeg (-acodec 
> copy) to fit it all to a container.
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Thank you for your answers, I think I'll use your alternative dE.
Carl, in fact I would like to encode in Stereo, not in Joint Stereo.
You said only Joint Stereo and Mono are supported, but how the
choice between this two modes is done? Is it automatically with
the number of channels detected? (So what happens if we
encode 6 channels (5.1) in mp3?)

Alex