Mencoder broken in Ubuntu

[James Takac]

On Friday 30 November 2007 21:11:19 John L Fjellstad wrote:
> 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)
>
> --
> John L. Fjellstad
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Hi John

I get that from the error message as well, i.e. a missing codec, likely lame

James