Hi, i cant use mencoder -oac mp3lame ... # or any script that uses it (i.e.dvd2avi) what should i do to solve that ? Thank you Dominique [do@dom Desktop]$ mencoder -oac mp3lame MEncoder 1.0rc1-4.1.2 (C) 2000-2006 MPlayer Team CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU 6600 @ 2.40GHz (Family: 6, Model: 15, Stepping: 6) CPUflags: Type: 6 MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1 Compiled with runtime CPU detection. MPlayer was compiled without libmp3lame support. [do@dom Desktop]$ [do@dom Desktop]$ mencoder -oac help MEncoder 1.0rc1-4.1.2 (C) 2000-2006 MPlayer Team CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU 6600 @ 2.40GHz (Family: 6, Model: 15, Stepping: 6) CPUflags: Type: 6 MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1 Compiled with runtime CPU detection. Available codecs: copy - frame copy, without re-encoding (useful for AC3) pcm - uncompressed PCM audio lavc - FFmpeg audio encoder (MP2, AC3, ...) faac - FAAC AAC audio encoder [do@dom Desktop]$ [do@dom dvd2avi]$ rpm -qa | grep lame lame-devel-3.97-1.fc7 lame-3.97-1.fc7 [do@dom dvd2avi]$ [root@dom dvd2avi]# locate mp3lame /usr/lib/libmp3lame.so /usr/lib/libmp3lame.so.0 /usr/lib/libmp3lame.so.0.0.0 [root@dom dvd2avi]# mplayer-1.0-0.34.rc1try2.fc7 mencoder-1.0-0.34.rc1try2.fc7 [root@dom dvd2avi]# rpm -qa | grep ffmpeg ffmpeg-devel-0.4.9-0.8.20070530.fc7 ffmpeg-0.4.9-0.8.20070530.fc7 gstreamer-ffmpeg-0.10.2-1.fc7 ffmpeg-libpostproc-0.4.9-0.8.20070530.fc7 [root@dom dvd2avi]# [root@dom dvd2avi]# yum repolist repo id repo name status adobe-linux-i386 Adobe Systems Incorporated enabled fedora Fedora 7 - i386 enabled freshrpms Fedora Core 7 - i386 - Freshrpms enabled macromedia Macromedia for i386 Linux enabled updates Fedora 7 - i386 - Updates enabled [root@dom dvd2avi]# my codecs are up2date: essential-20061022.tar.bz2