Mencoder broken in Ubuntu

[John L Fjellstad]

Dave M G <martin at autotelic.com> writes:

> Ubuntu List,
>
> When I run Mencoder from the command line, I get the following error.
>
> Audio LAVC, couldn't find encoder for codec mp3.
>
> It's surprising because this was working fine in Feisty.
>
> Some searching on Google has turned up the possibility that Mencoder is 
> broken in Ubuntu Gutsy.
>
> However, I can not find any concrete information about a fix or workaround.
>
> Is there a way to get around this error?

mencoder works for me.  Is lame installed? (or liblame0, I guess)

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