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

[D Richard Felker III]

On Fri, Feb 08, 2002 at 09:19:11AM -0500, Robert Kesterson wrote:
> 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.)

well two issues. one, i would want audio, which i doubt this would
include. but secondly, i don't necessarily want re-encoded output, but
rather copied frames as well, as in -oac copy or -ovc copy. i'm not
sure how possible this is, though.

rich