[MPlayer-users] -ss still broken ???

[D Richard Felker III]

On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 03:24:58PM -0500, j.a.l wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> it seem the -ss ( mplayer / mencoder ) doesn't jump to the correct 
> position,
> ex : -ss 500 ( on a dvd stream.dump ), start at 1280sec, 86% !! ( get 
> from a modified mplayer version, values are ok ). ok, playing must start 
> at a keyframe, but it's seem little far...
> 
> ( deal is the use of -ss -endpos mb for slitting a steam.dump into 
> several divx )

DO NOT USE SEEKING FOR THIS!! You will end up splitting your file
right in the middle of a scene which is lame! Instead use -chapter A-B
with -dumpstream to only rip certain ranges of chapters.

Rich