Comment 0 for bug 296922

while trying to reduce the size of mp3 file using ffmpeg, I got this error,

$ ffmpeg -i song.MP3 -acodec mp3 -ab 64kb song_new.mp3

FFmpeg version r11872+debian_3:0.svn20080206-12ubuntu3, Copyright (c) 2000-2008 Fabrice Bellard, et al.
  configuration: --enable-gpl --enable-pp --enable-swscaler --enable-x11grab --prefix=/usr --enable-libgsm --enable-libtheora --enable-libvorbis --enable-pthreads --disable-strip --enable-libfaad --enable-libfaadbin --enable-liba52 --enable-liba52bin --enable-libdc1394 --disable-armv5te --disable-armv6 --disable-altivec --disable-vis --enable-shared --disable-static
  libavutil version: 49.6.0
  libavcodec version: 51.50.0
  libavformat version: 52.7.0
  libavdevice version: 52.0.0
  built on Oct 3 2008 22:40:31, gcc: 4.3.2
Input #0, mp3, from 'raasathi.MP3':
  Duration: 00:04:38.8, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 160 kb/s
    Stream #0.0: Audio: mp3, 44100 Hz, stereo, 160 kb/s
Unknown encoder 'mp3'

$ ldd /usr/bin/ffmpeg

 linux-gate.so.1 => (0xb7f19000)
 libavdevice.so.52 => /usr/lib/i686/cmov/libavdevice.so.52 (0xb7ee2000)
 libavformat.so.52 => /usr/lib/i686/cmov/libavformat.so.52 (0xb7e41000)
 libavcodec.so.51 => /usr/lib/i686/cmov/libavcodec.so.51 (0xb78f3000)
 libavutil.so.49 => /usr/lib/i686/cmov/libavutil.so.49 (0xb78e3000)
 libm.so.6 => /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libm.so.6 (0xb78bd000)
 libswscale.so.0 => /usr/lib/i686/cmov/libswscale.so.0 (0xb7890000)
 libpthread.so.0 => /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libpthread.so.0 (0xb7877000)
 libc.so.6 => /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6 (0xb7718000)
 libdc1394.so.22 => /usr/lib/libdc1394.so.22 (0xb76ab000)
 libX11.so.6 => /usr/lib/libX11.so.6 (0xb75bc000)
 libXext.so.6 => /usr/lib/libXext.so.6 (0xb75ad000)
 libz.so.1 => /usr/lib/libz.so.1 (0xb7597000)
 libdl.so.2 => /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libdl.so.2 (0xb7593000)
 libgsm.so.1 => /usr/lib/libgsm.so.1 (0xb7585000)
 libtheora.so.0 => /usr/lib/libtheora.so.0 (0xb753a000)
 libvorbisenc.so.2 => /usr/lib/libvorbisenc.so.2 (0xb7440000)
 libvorbis.so.0 => /usr/lib/libvorbis.so.0 (0xb7416000)
 /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0xb7eff000)
 libraw1394.so.8 => /usr/lib/libraw1394.so.8 (0xb740f000)
 libxcb-xlib.so.0 => /usr/lib/libxcb-xlib.so.0 (0xb740b000)
 libxcb.so.1 => /usr/lib/libxcb.so.1 (0xb73f2000)
 libXau.so.6 => /usr/lib/libXau.so.6 (0xb73ef000)
 libogg.so.0 => /usr/lib/libogg.so.0 (0xb73e9000)
 libXdmcp.so.6 => /usr/lib/libXdmcp.so.6 (0xb73e4000)

can somebody help ffmpeg to pick up libmp3lame?