[MEncoder-users] mencoder -ss ?? doesnt seem to want to work

[Rich Felker]

On Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 12:45:43AM -0800, RC wrote:
> On Tue, 10 Jan 2006 23:54:01 -0000
> "Nige" <nkarnold at blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> > but whatever i try with -ss and 'ive tried
> > 
> > -ss  15:05        - start at 15min 05 secs
> > -ss  400
> > -ss 5000
> > 
> > it always starts at the beginning of the input.
> 
> Whether -ss works or not depends on whether the video in question is
> broken or not...  Yours apparently is.  Try a different file, and you
> should have better results.  If you really need to seek, you can re-mux
> it into an MPEG-PS or AVI file with mencoder.

An even better method is to make an editlist (EDL) file with the start
and stop times you want, and use:

mencoder -hr-edl-seek -edl file.edl ....

This will give frame-exact cutting.

Rich