Step 1. Install MenCoder and MPlayer
CentOS/RHEL and Fedora users, make sure that you have enabled ATrpms repository in the system. Let’s begin installing MPlayer & Mencoder as per your operating system.
For CentOS/RHEL and Fedora:
# yum install mencoder
For Ubuntu and Debian:
$ sudo apt-get update $ sudo apt-get install mencoder
Step 2. Check Audio/Video Codes
After successfully installing Mencoder, let’s check the available audio/video codes
Video Codecs:
$ mencoder -ovc help MEncoder svn r34540 (Ubuntu), built with gcc-4.6 (C) 2000-2012 MPlayer Team Available codecs: copy - frame copy, without re-encoding. Doesn't work with filters. frameno - special audio-only file for 3-pass encoding, see DOCS. raw - uncompressed video. Use fourcc option to set format explicitly. nuv - nuppel video lavc - libavcodec codecs - best quality! vfw - VfW DLLs, read DOCS/HTML/en/encoding-guide.html. qtvideo - QuickTime DLLs, currently only SVQ1/3 are supported. xvid - XviD encoding x264 - H.264 encoding
Audio Codecs:
$ mencoder -oac help MEncoder svn r34540 (Ubuntu), built with gcc-4.6 (C) 2000-2012 MPlayer Team Available codecs: copy - frame copy, without re-encoding (useful for AC3) pcm - uncompressed PCM audio mp3lame - cbr/abr/vbr MP3 using libmp3lame lavc - FFmpeg audio encoder (MP2, AC3, ...)
