[MPlayer-users] New version possibly support endpos on windows

[Jerry Geis]

Gents,

I was using mencoder with an endpos value. It works.

I have a need for endpos to also function when playing a video.
Can the argument be extended to not only be an mencoder option but also 
an mplayer option?
That is my request.

I have a need to start mplayer and only show 5 minutes of the video 
stream then close.
I was mistaken when I thought it worked under linux as it WAS with 
mencoder that it was
working and not with mplayer... My mistake.

I would like the endpos ability in both mencoder as it is and extend it 
to mplayer.

Thanks,

Jerry

Rainer Kohler wrote:

>Jerry Geis writes:
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>>It seems logical the -endpos should continue to work
>>as a player also...? Perhaps I only want to pop up 30 seconds of a video 
>>clip.
>>It is working that way on MPlayer-1.0pre7try2 for linux.
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>>Is this a bug in versions after 1.0pre7try2?
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>I just tried it on my system:
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>kaag:Videos>> /usr/bin/mplayer whatever.avi -endpos 3
>MPlayer 1.0pre7try2-4.0.2 (C) 2000-2005 MPlayer Team
>CPU: Intel  (Family: 8, Stepping: 1)
>Detected cache-line size is 64 bytes
>CPUflags:  MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1
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>Unknown option on the command line: endpos
>Exit 1
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>My manpage says:
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>GENERAL ENCODING OPTIONS (MENCODER ONLY)
>       -audio-delay <0.0-...>
>              Sets  the  audio  delay field in the header.  Default is 0.0, negative values do not
>              work.  This does not delay the audio while encoding, but the player will see the de-
>              fault audio delay, sparing you the use of the -delay option.
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>       -audio-density <1-50>
>              Number of audio chunks per second (default is 2 for 0.5s long audio chunks).
>              NOTE: CBR only, VBR ignores this as it puts each packet in a new chunk.
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>       -audio-preload <0.0-2.0>
>              Sets up the audio buffering time interval (default: 0.5s).
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>       -endpos <[[hh:]mm:]ss[.ms]|size[b|kb|mb]> (also see -ss and -sb)
>              Stop encoding at the given time or byte position.
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>Note that the heading above -endpos clearly says "MENCODER ONLY"
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>Doesn't it make you think that the developers claim they never heard
>of -endpos in mplayer?
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>My guess is that whatever you're using is not the official
>MPlayer-1.0pre7try2.  The (full) output of mplayer might help...
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>Rainer
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