[MEncoder-users] demuxing question

[Etienne Buira]

On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 07:33:01PM -0400, Jorge Fábregas wrote:
> On Monday 22 November 2010 10:48:19 Carl Eugen Hoyos wrote:
> > Please consider using ffmpeg for this kind of conversion: MEncoder is not
> > an actively maintained application.
> 
> Hi Carl,
> 
> I'm curious:  Is there any real reason to use MEncoder these days when ffmpeg 
> is available?  I haven't tried ffmpeg but since MEncoder is no longer 
> maintained I'm considering it. Is there something MEncoder would do that ffmpeg 
> won't?
> 
> Regards,
> Jorge

Since I didn't try ffmpeg for this purpose in a while, it might come out
to be ok now, but last time I checked, I was unable (with -ss -t) to
properly cut and join parts of video without AV desync (EDL permits that
with mencoder, but exhibits some other bugs).

Typical use case : a TV record which contains garbage at the beginning,
then the beginning of the TV show I'm interested in, then
advertisements, then second part and so on.