[MPlayer-users] [mencoder] splitting big movies

[Alejandro Néstor Vargas]

yardbird dijo:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read
> DOCS/bugreports.html] Hi all,
> I want to split a big movie into two parts. I can create the first part
> with  the -endpos switch:
>
> mencoder big_movie.avi -oac copy -ovc copy -endpos 01:00:00 -o
> part1.avi
>
> But when I create the second part with:
>
> mencoder big_movie.avi -oac copy -ovc copy -ss 01:00:00 -o part2.avi
>
> I get lots of errors in the output file. From DOCS it seems to me that
> this is  a problem of the -ss switch, since I should start encoding
> from a time to  which corresponds a key frame. How can I do this?

May be you need to add -idx argument to tell mencoder to create the index
of the input file for being able to seek?

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Alejandro Néstor Vargas
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