[MPlayer-users] Re: Cut First Part of Movie

[Todd Walton]

I got a reply off-list from someone with an intriguing method of doing
what I want to do.

On 3/3/06, pfile at pacbell.net <pfile at pacbell.net> wrote:
> the other thing you can do is to run mplayer with -edlout file.edl, and
> press 'i' everywhere you want a cutpoint.
>
> then run mencoder -oac copy -ovc copy -edl file.edl
>
> i usually have to edit the edl file a bit though because it gets
> confused while creating the file. however, -sb just truncates the file
> and it can start with bad data. and the other bonus is you can cut
> arbitrary parts out, not just the beginning. i suppose -ss should work
> okay for what you are doing.
>
> generally speaking i've found that mencoder doesnt necessarily do a
> good job with the audio when using -ss, -sb or -edl, and can totally
> screw up the audio sometimes. i think avidemux2 does a better job with
> this.
>
> rob