[MPlayer-users] Re: Mencoder segfaults at end of MPEG2 stream

[D Richard Felker III]

On Tue, May 27, 2003 at 10:17:07AM +0200, Frank Mehnert wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]

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> On Thursday 22 May 2003 00:32, D Richard Felker III wrote:
> > On Wed, May 21, 2003 at 04:53:46PM +0300, Jukka Tastula wrote:
> > > On Wednesday 21 May 2003 14:35, Frank Mehnert wrote:
> > > > As I said, the stream is most likely defect -- but only at the end. I
> > > > can view it without any problems. I think that mencoder is not robust
> > > > enough to handle the error at the end of stream.
> > >
> > > So try -vc ffmpeg12, it seems to handle errors better. Or you could try
> > > load the stream in GOPchop and cut out the part you want to encode.
> >
> > Or just use -endpos to stop encoding before the broken part!
> 
> This is not as easy as it seems as -ss and -endpos are very unprecise.

Nope. -ss is imprecise. -endpos is exact down to the frame.

Rich