[MEncoder-users] splitting mpegs

[RC]

On Wed, 26 Sep 2007 07:59:09 -0400
Giacomo Comes <comes at naic.edu> wrote:

> 1) the hand-calculation is the most difficult part of the process.
> There is no magic formula that will give you the agruments of -ss and
> -frames. Other tools (like mpeg2enc/mplex) allows you to specify
> directly the size of the chunk, mencoder doesn't.

Mencoder allows chunk size for the -endpos argument.  And once you've
cut off that first chunk, you can determine its length, and use that for
the -ss argument.