[MPlayer-users] Equivalent of -endpos in mplayer?

[Corey Hickey]

Philip M. White wrote:
> Hello, everyone;
> 
> I am trying to split a movie for a school project.  This movie contains
> nudity, and the only way we can watch it at school is if those parts are
> in some way removed.  Because I don't own video editing software, I
> decided to use mplayer to play the movie in clips.  For example, if the
> first nudity occurrence is 30 minutes into the movie and lasts 10
> seconds, I'd do:
> 
> mplayer -ss 0 -endpos 30:00 movie.avi
> sleep 10
> mplayer -ss 30:10 -endpos <whatever> movie.avi
> 
> Notice that I am using -endpos here; until yesterday, I thought that this
> parameter was present because I've used it in mencoder.  However, the
> function of limiting playtime does not seem to exist in mplayer at all,
> which is rather shocking to me.
> 
> Could anyone tell me how I can split this movie (preferably using just
> mplayer) into segments specified in seconds?  Your help will make the
> movie /Nineteen Eighty-Four/ available to the masses!  Thank you.
> 
> Philip
> 

This will do what you need:
http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/HTML/en/edl.html

Remember that mplayer will only seek to keyframes, though, so it can't
be very precise on the end positions.

-Corey