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

[Matthias Wieser]

Rich Felker wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 05, 2006 at 12:15:02PM +0200, Matthias Wieser wrote:
>> Phil Ehrens wrote:
>>> You don't. You can't seek to an arbitrary frame, you have to seek
>>> to an iframe and creep stealthily up on those skittish pframes.
>>
>> That should be the internal mencoder behaviour and nothing the user
>> should have to worry about.
>
> Then get back to us when you have a patch to add a "smart copy" mode
> to mencoder, but it can't be always-enabled anyway due to codecs with
> no encoder.

1. I'm fine with avidemux.
2. You don't need a encoder to seek to a given position.