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

[Guillaume POIRIER]

Hi,

On 8/22/05, Reimar Döffinger <Reimar.Doeffinger at stud.uni-karlsruhe.de> wrote:
> 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.

Plus, I guess it won't works then the source is a DVD (using the
dvd:// syntax), though I never cared to check as it doesn't make sense
to me. ;-)

Regards,
Guillaume
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