[MEncoder-users] -ss and -endpos cutting creates very visible h264 artifacts

[Reimar Döffinger]

On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 11:23:16PM -0800, Marc MERLIN wrote:
> > Copying the video completely into a different format forst, e.g. mkv, with ffmpeg or mkvmerge
> > or so might fix it...
> 
> Yes, if I re-encode it will likely work. It just takes a long time to
> re-encode and loses quality :)

Not re-encoding (mkvmerge can't even do encoding AFAIK), just copying it.
It won't allow you to cut more precisely, but at least there should be
no artefacts.