[MEncoder-users] Strange handling of time arguments passed to-ss

[Reimar Döffinger]

Hi,
On Mon, Aug 22, 2005 at 10:44:17AM +0200, Nico Sabbi wrote:
> >Indexes and seeking through video files is notoriously flaky,
> >independant of the player used. This will be especially true if you
> >recorded it from a stream and just C-c'ed it when you wanted to stop.
> >Rebuilding the index of the file can help:
> >http://mplayerhq.hu/~diego/DOCS/HTML-single/en/MPlayer.html#id2873868
> 
> mplayer can't reindex mpeg* files, yet

Well, it can if you don't mind converting it to AVI in the process I
think. And since he wants to reencode it anyway...
Anyway, the -sb option is more reliable although more annoying to use.

Greetings,
Reimar Döffinger