[MPlayer-dev-eng] seek/startpos in mencoder

[Robert Kesterson]

On Thu, 7 Feb 2002, D Richard Felker III wrote:
>
> hey, i was trying to extract a small intensive clip out of a divx
> movie i have yesterday in order to use it for performance testing, and
> i found that mencoder doesn't seem to have any option for starting at
> a particular position in the source file, only -endpos to end encoding
> before the end of the source file. what is involved in adding a
> -startpos or -ss/-sb option? i might look into this -- it sounds like
> it might be really useful for editing commercials out of recordings or
> something, among other things.

I agree this would be useful.  If you're in a hurry, though, you can use
my yuv4mpeg output patch for mplayer -- mplayer can seek to whatever
position you like, then just encode from that.  See
http://source.robertk.com for the patch. (The patch has been submitted to
the mplayer folks, but so far there has been nothing but silence in
response.)
 
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  Robert Kesterson
  robertk at robertk.com