[MPlayer-users] How to get a remote avi section with mplayer (via HTTP) ??

[Abel Campos]

Hi again!I started this post many months ago. Now I have some questions
related again.

I have checked mencoder needs to read the idx (frames index) chunk of the
avi file before to get the video section of the file. This is necessary to
find out the position of the wished video in the file exactly.
The problem is that the idx chunk is around 4 MBytes (for a file of 1GB). I
need to get several video sections of the same file, but since I launch a
different execution of mencoder.exe for each section, I guess the same idx
chunk is downloaded every time.
My question is: Is there any way to make several operations in a only
execution of mencoder using batch or similar ???
If the answer is yes, it's possible that such mechanism was intelligent
enough to download de index once.

Thank you.

On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 9:38 AM, Abel Campos <abeljus at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thank you very much!
> I got it mixing your answers:
>
> $ mencoder -o <outfile>.avi http://<url>/<file>.avi -ss <seek_seconds>
> -frames <nframes> -oac copy -ovc copy
>
>
>
>
> On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 10:12 PM, Seweryn Walentynowicz <
> seweryn at walor.torun.pl> wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Jul 02, 2008 at 06:34:37PM +0200, Abel Campos wrote:
>> > I can play a section of the remote avi file specifying the begin time
>> using
>> > the -ss option, but not the end time.
>> > $ mplayer http://<url>/<file>.avi -ss <seek_seconds>
>>   -endpos should be helpful
>>  or -frames if frames per seconds is constant.
>>
>> --
>>       Seweryn Walentynowicz
>>       S.Walentynowicz at walor.torun.pl
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