[MPlayer-dev-eng] Sequence list

[Alex Beregszaszi]

On Sat, Jan 05, 2002 at 06:40:31PM +0100, Panagiotis Issaris wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> NuppelVideo supports something I find very handy called ``edit files''.
> The NuppelVideo package includes an editor which can be used to mark
> start and end positions of sequences. These sequences are saved to 
> an ASCII file named originalfile.nuv.edit. The NuppelVideo player and
> the NuppelVideo to DivX transcoder use this file to determine what
> sequences to cut out of the video stream. The file just contains couples
> of references to the stream.
> 
> F.e.
> 100 200
> 434 34304
> Which would mean skip frames 100 to 200 and frames 434 till 34304.
> 
> This gives you a very easy method for removing commercials from movies
> and for cropping the stream: I record musicvideos alot, and tend to start
> recording just before the new song starts, till just after it ends. By
> using such an editfile I can then remove the unwanted pieces at the 
> beginning and at the end of the recorded video.
> 
> I'm currently writting seeking support for NuppelVideo, which is actually
> done except for some codecleanup, but I wanted to support the NuppelVideo
> edit files as well. The problem I have is that I dont know how to access
> the filename from within the demuxer. For the moment I'm implementing
> it using a fixed filename f.e. 'the_index.edit'.
> 
> Now, I think this ``editfile'' system would be handy for*any* fileformat.
> Is anyone else interested in this feature?
> 
> We could even easily turn mplayer into such a clipping editor by assigning
> two keys to mark beginnings and endings, and write those values to some file.
> While playing a video, you could then easily edit your sourcevideo before 
> transcoding it.

I'm going to start a new project of video editing and recording toolkit.

Are you interested in it?

> 
> 
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alex