This is not a big problem but it would be nice to know (I can extract to mp2 then convert to mp3, and there are alternatives). In order to play MP3 you need to install the LAME MP3 Encoder fyi for the. I am wary of doing things without apt sorting out the dependencies for me, if I start manually installing things that are not compatible with my current system then it could turn into a horror show trying to sort it out! (We need a checkpoint restore system for linux). Compare FFmpeg VS LAME and find out whats different, what people are saying. If not then should I remove the version I have installed via synaptic and download the latest and compile it myself, if I did this would I need any extra libraries to enable me to compile it? configure make make install lame ffmpeg.

If the above is not available then can I recompile it with what I already have installed as I notice there is no source for ffmpeg listed on synaptic, if so, how? First i had to install libmp3lame - ffmpeg uses this. I have been trying to rip the audio from a dvd to mp3, I extract it to a vob using vobcopy then if I try to extract the audio to mp3 with ffmpeg using '-vcodec libmp3lame' I get an error and I have read that the ffmpeg that is in the default repository has been compiled without mp3 encoding so even thought I have lame installed it will not use it, is there an easy way to get a copy of ffmpeg which is mp3 enabled, maybe from another repository?

Ffmpeg install lame