[MPlayer-users] How to encode the middle part of a file?

[Jason Tackaberry]

On Sun, 2003-10-19 at 05:00, Adam Nielsen wrote:
> I tried the original transport stream and -ss does work, but unfortunately it 
> drops frames in the first few seconds of encoding, which means I can't get a 
> frame-accurate cut without losing subsequent frames over the following few 
> seconds.

Yes, this is a problem unless you the frame you want to seek to happens
to be a key frame.  Try avidemux2.  It has a smart-copy mode and lets
you do edits accurate to the frame.  It will encode those frames which
it must, and copy all the others.

Cheers,
Jason.