[MEncoder-users] Encoding a specific frame range

[Guillaume POIRIER]

Hi,

On 6/28/05, Philippe Combes <Philippe.Combes at ens-lyon.fr> wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I would like to encode a movie splitted into two DVDs into one big AVI.
> I found a way, combining tccat (from transcode) to mencoder ability of encoding
> from stdin (which transcode cannot do, as far as I know) This works great for
> video as well as for audio.
> 
> The problem comes when I want to select a frame range for encoding : -ss and
> -endpos options only take times as arguments. And, although I use exact times
> for my frames (according to the input frame rate of 25fps), I have never been
> able to get the exact frame range I want.
> And this is important for I need to finally concatenate these ranges, encoded
> with slightly different options.
> 
> transcode offers the ability to encode an exact frame range, but not to encode
> two DVDs at the same time, and not to encode from stdin, as I said.
> 
> Is there a way to force mencoder to accurately start encoding from one frame and
> stop at another ?

Dig in the direction of EDL. I think what you need is "high precision
seek" or something like that...

Guillaume

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