[MPlayer-users] DVD seeking and byte position

[Thomas Larsen]

On Fri, Jan 28, 2005 at 01:54:09PM +0100, Thorben Kröger wrote:
> Hello,
> I want to rip small sequences from a dvd using mplayer/mencoder to cut 
> different scenes from different movies together. Let's say I want the segment 
> starting from position 00:35:06, I could use "mplayer dvd://1 -ss 00:35:06". 
> However, this does not always work, because dvd seeking isn't accurate. So I 
> might end up at position 00:40:00 or somewhere else and get a totally 
> different segment.

As I suggested a few days ago it would be nice to have a function to
seek to a specific frame (-sf?) that would be a lot more accurate than
-ss.

/Thomas