[MEncoder-users] mplayer / mencoder: precision of -ss

[Oded Shimon]

On Tue, Apr 04, 2006 at 04:05:27PM -0700, Reza Roboubi wrote:
> When I use the mplayer "pause" key, it stops exactly where
> I want it; bang-on.  Then I record the number of seconds that
> it has printed.  Then I use something like
> 
> mencoder -ss 30.0 -endpos 10 -ovc copy -oac copy -o segment.dump stream.dump
> 
> When I play back the stream, it's not exactly what I wanted.  In fact it 
> seems
> a good number of seconds (maybe 6) off.
> 
> How do you correct that?

Use -hr-edl-seek and -edl . Read XML docs about EDL.

- ods15