[MPlayer-dev-eng] hello! silly feature question...

[jeremie ZIMMERMANN]

first of all congratulations to everbody who participates to this great piece 
of software which enlightens my day since it exists!

mplayer is a jewel on the gnu/linux workstation, and i really want to 
congratulate you all for this!


now one idiotic usage i would like to make while viewing so much videos 
(mostly oldies, public domain stuff) is that :

i would love to be able to cut and save some small portions of the videos i'm 
viewing, grabbing a scene here and there... so i could reuse those sequences 
later, this could be describded as  "vampling" (sampling but with 
videos ;)... 

i was wondering: how complicated would it be to do so with mplayer? during a 
pause a filename could be chosen, when the pause is released the stream could 
be written while being read, and on another pause, the file could be 
closed... ?



sounds simple like that but i wonder if it is : 

- really as easy as it sounds?
- doable? or even doable as an external program or plugin?
- projected as a feature of a next version in some kind?



thanx for your great piece of software and for your kind attention, and all my 
humble excuses if you find this idea totally stupid!




jz


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**  Jeremie ZIMMERMANN  * * *  http://tofz.org  **
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