[MEncoder-users] Starting reading a video from a point

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Dnia 28-06-2007 o 13:23:55 Jérémie Klein <grm.list at gmail.com> napisał:

> Hi all,
>
> I'm actually writing a GUI for mencoder, and i have got a small problem.
>
> I want to divide the encoding process, so i started by using -ss and -endpos
> options....
> The problem is that the start and stop are not really precise ....
>
> Then, I wanted to use frames to delimit my encoding ... so the option
> -frames permits to select a number of frames to encode, but is there an
> option that permits mencoder (or an mplayer option) to start reading from a
> precise frame ... or do i have to divide the video file first and then
> encode each part of the divided video ?

Try using edl file with -hr-edl-seek parameter to skip the beginning and then
-frames to encode frames of _one_ fragment of one file.