[MEncoder-users] Problem with EDL

[Fluxid]

> If you are trying to cut out a single segment from the middle of the
> file, why do you not use -ss and -endpos rather than doing complicated
> things with EDLs?

-endpos is not working at all, i wrote about it in my post

> The fact that your reply (and for that matter your original message)
> contained lines something like 130 characters long, vs. the accepted
> standard maximum of 80 if not fewer, is considerably more annoying. The
> fact of replying to your own message, so long as you actually have
> something more to say and there is no immediately better place to say
> it, is not bothersome at all.

Sorry for that, i configured my mail client this way... I'll remember
to wrap lines manually ;)

> Unfortunately, the only completely reliable way to determine the length
> of a file - either in frames or in seconds - is to parse the file
> through from beginning to end. There are some containers which have the
> length information stored in file metadata, but not all do.
>
> Without knowing how long the file is, MEncoder obviously cannot perform
> the test you describe.

Yes, but i'm sure that IT KNOWS the length, because mplayer knows it too
(it shows length of movie in OSD... without decoding all frames ;)