On Mon, 25 Feb 2019 11:40:19 -0800
Dick Steffens <[email protected]> wrote:

> I am ripping some CDs and converting the .wav files to .mp3. I can do 
> this with the following in Ubuntu 18.04:
> 
> for file in *.wav; do ffmpeg -i "${file}"  -acodec libmp3lame -ab
> 220k "${file/.wav/.mp3}"; done
> 
> When I run that in Slackware 14.2 I get the error message:
> 
> Unknown encoder 'libmp3lame'
> 
> I have installed slackpkgs for ffmpeg and lame. I'm guessing that the 
> codec provided by the slackpkg has a different name. How do I figure 
> that out? Or is there something else I'm missing here?
> 

$ ffmpeg -encoders
 and see if you can find one relating to mp3 in there. However If it's
 not in there that's probably due to how licensing that codec was back
 in the 90s.

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