[MPlayer-users] Cut First Part of Movie

[Todd Walton]

On 3/2/06, Andrew A. Gill <superluser at frontiernet.net> wrote:
> On Thu, 2 Mar 2006, Todd Walton wrote:
>
> > How can I take an existing movie file and cut off the first portion of
> > it?  I have a movie with crap in the beginning, and then it gets to
> > the non-crap part of it.  I want to make the first so-many minutes not
> > be there, and just save myself a MB or two.
> >
> > Will mplayer do this?  I've only been able to find "-frames" which
> > will cut the ending off.
>
> There's -ss, which skips x number of seconds, and -sb, which
> skips x number of bytes.  It would be nice (HINT!!! HINT!!!) to
> have a -sf option, which would skip x number of frames, but it
> doesn't exist.

So I used, in the end, this command:

mencoder reunion.avi -o reunion-clipped.avi -ss 601 -oac copy -ovc copy

And it worked wonderfully.  Thanks Andrew.

-todd