[MEncoder-users] Trimming video

[Pete Davis]

> On Fri, Jun 24, 2005 at 12:26:27PM -0500, Pete Davis wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> Update your MEncoder. as of MEncoder 1.0pre7, mencoder supports -edl .
> There's also another option you might be interested in, -hr-edl-seek ,
> which allows MEncoder to cut and non-keyframe boundries. Obviously, _only_
> if you re-encode the entire video. It does still work with -ovc copy, but
> not gracefully. So:
> 
> mencoder capture.avi -ovc lavc -edl cuts.edl -hr-edl-seek -o output.avi
> 
> 
> Also, just as a sidenote, order of options doesn't matter if you have only
> one file unless you're overriding options.
> 

Okay, upgraded to 1.0pre7 but now I'm getting a video_out device problem. I
don't recall running into any issues with pre6 out of the box. Just did a
./configure, make, and make install and I was going. That doesn't appear to
be the case here.

Anyway, here's the output from the first pass attempt:

TIA

Pete

MEncoder 1.0pre7-3.4.2 (C) 2000-2005 MPlayer Team
CPU: Intel Pentium 4/Xeon/Celeron Northwood (Family: 8, Stepping: 4)
Detected cache-line size is 64 bytes
CPUflags: Type: 8 MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1
Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX MMX2 SSE SSE2

File not found: 'frameno.avi'
Failed to open frameno.avi
success: format: 0  data: 0x0 - 0xb8789fc0
MPEG-PS file format detected.
VIDEO:  MPEG2  720x480  (aspect 2)  29.970 fps  9600.0 kbps (1200.0 kbyte/s)
[V] filefmt:2  fourcc:0x10000002  size:720x480  fps:29.97  ftime:=0.0334
==========================================================================
Opening audio decoder: [mp3lib] MPEG layer-2, layer-3
AUDIO: 48000 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 384.0 kbit/25.00% (ratio: 48000->192000)
Selected audio codec: [mp3] afm:mp3lib (mp3lib MPEG layer-2, layer-3)
==========================================================================
Opening video filter: [expand osd=1]
Expand: -1 x -1, -1 ; -1  (-1=autodetect) osd: 1
Opening video filter: [pp=md]
Opening video filter: [pullup]
==========================================================================
Opening video decoder: [mpegpes] MPEG 1/2 Video passthrough
VDec: vo config request - 720 x 480 (preferred csp: Mpeg PES)
[PP] Using external postprocessing filter, max q = 6.
Could not find matching colorspace - retrying with -vf scale...
Opening video filter: [scale]
The selected video_out device is incompatible with this codec.
VDecoder init failed :(
Opening video decoder: [libmpeg2] MPEG 1/2 Video decoder libmpeg2-v0.4.0b