[MEncoder-users] Trimming video

[Guillaume POIRIER]

Hi,

First of all, please do not send HTML mails to this list. It makes
people unhappy :-(

On 6/24/05, Pete Davis <pete at petedavis.net> wrote:
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> Does mencoder provide any way to cut out sections of video? 
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> 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. 
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> Now I just need to be able to trim out the commercials. 
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> 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 
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> 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. 

I haven't used EDL, but as far as I can tell, it works the exact same
way for MEncoder and MPlayer. Just try it! :-)

Guillaume
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