grabot: ill post my answer here instead
of pming you, that way anyone in the future that
encounters this problem will know how to fix it and
benefit from it.
firstly i too have a debian
based system (apt-get vlc is not compiled with mp3
support) im sorry to say i had to compile my own vlc and
enable mp3 support, you will need to do the
same)
Because very few distributions these days
have mp3 support i have add 2 new menus to the code to
allow for different audio and video codecs
Here
is what you will need to do to enable mp3 support(in
order):
Download and install
lame:
http://download.videolan.org/pub/videolan/vlc/0.8.5/contrib/lame-3.96.1.tar.gzThen
Download
and install ffmpeg:
http://download.videolan.org/pub/videolan/vlc/0.8.5/contrib/ffmpeg-20051126.tar.bz2You
will need to enable mp3lame support to do this
type:
./configure --enable-mp3lame
--enable-shared --enable-gpl --enable-pp
then the
usual make and make install (dont delete this we will
need it later)
Then
Finally you will need
to
Download and install vlc:
http://download.videolan.org/pub/videolan/vlc/0.8.5/vlc-0.8.5.tar.gzYou
will need to enable ffmpeg-mp3lame support to do
this type
./configure --with-ffmpeg-mp3lame
--without-x --disable-wxwidgets --disable-skins2
--with-ffmpeg-tree=/path/to/ffmpeg/source/code
then
the usual make and make install
All this is a
pain i know
you said the quality is not great,
did you try increasing the bitrate of the audio in the
pulldown menu ?