[MEncoder-users] Spit files -ss

[Nitin Jain]

No, the "precision" in length/position is not possible in the sense of
bytes or time. Encoding is terminated at the closest frame boundary,
which means you would've a few bytes or seconds extra (or less).

-nj

On 1/16/07, Mike Petersen <mpetersen at exitec.de> wrote:
> Hi,
> i like to split files at a given position. So I use :
>
> mencoder -ovc copy -oac copy -idx -audio-preload 0.0 -mc 0 -hr-edl-seek
> -ss 20 -endpos 420 -o out.wmv video.wmv
>
> But the position is off. This is also mentioned in several over posts,
> but nothing I found helped. The -hr-edl-seek has written in the docs :
> "NOTE: Not guaranteed to work right with '−ovc copy'."
>
> So my question is there a way to split the movie at an exact position
> (for an exact length) by using -ovc copy ?
>
> Thanks
> Mike
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