[MEncoder-users] Trimming video

[Pete Davis]

Sorry about the HTML. I didn't intend to send an HTML message. Stupid
Outlook. 

Actually, I tried before I posted which is why I posted.

It gives me an "error parsing cmdline" if I pass -edl edit.edl in the
command line.

My actual mencoder commands are:

mencoder myfile.mpg -oac mp3lame -lameopts cbr:br=128 -o /dev/null -vf
pullup,pp=md -ovc lavc -lavcopts
vcodec=mpeg4:vbitrate=900:mbd=2:vpass=1:vqmin=2:vqmax=31 -edl edit.edl -

mencoder myfile.mpg -oac mp3lame -lameopts cbr:br=128 -o newfile.avi -vf
pullup,pp=md -ovc lavc -lavcopts
vcodec=mpeg4:vbitrate=900:mbd=2:vpass=2:vqmin=2:vqmax=31 -edl edit.edl -

I tried placing the -edl right after the filename as well as where it is now
to see if location in the command line was important.

I'm open to suggestions.

Pete


> -----Original Message-----
> From: mencoder-users-bounces at mplayerhq.hu [mailto:mencoder-users-
> bounces at mplayerhq.hu] On Behalf Of Guillaume POIRIER
> Sent: Friday, June 24, 2005 11:39 AM
> To: MEncoder usage discussions
> Subject: Re: [MEncoder-users] Trimming video
> 
> 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:
> >
> >
> >
> > 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.
> 
> 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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