[MEncoder-users] Trimming video

[Pete Davis]

Does mencoder provide any way to cut out sections of video?

 

In particular, I just got a Hauppauge WinTV PVR 150 and after a few hours
struggling to get the audio working, I was able to do some captures from my
TiVo and came up with an encoding script that does a very nice job.

 

Now I just need to be able to trim out the commercials.

 

I played around with VirtualDub (in Windows) which makes it very easy to
edit the video. Unfortunately it won't work directly with the mpg file. I
need to encode to an AVI first (or else let VirtualDub do the encoding
itself which I don't want it to do). It supports stream copying, but it
doesn't seem to support creating key frames. Thus, I end up with cuts where
I don't want them or really nasty video at the cuts

 

I see MPlayer has the Edit Decision List, but it looks like MEncoder doesn't
have an equivalent, or if it does, I missed it.

 

At the very least, if there's a way for me to specify where to create key
frames, that would at least let me do clean edits with VirtualDub.

 

Is there another app I should be using? I hate to use more tools than I
need. I want to stick with mencoder for the actual encoding because it does
such a nice job and I'm getting more comfortable with it.

 

Thanks.

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