[MPlayer-users] Using mplayer as a MPEG-TS cutter

[Reimar Döffinger]

On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 10:13:53PM +0200, Ptitboul Ptitboul wrote:
> Now the question is how to find the position in the file where we would like
> to cut. Since mplayer can efficiently play MPEG-TS with a H.264 video
> stream, we could simply like to add to mplayer's status line the current
> position in the file, in octets from the beginning of the file. However,
> this value is not really meaningful for video format that don't have
> resynchronisation capabilities, therefore we may like to display it only
> with MPEG-TS and similar formats.
> What do you think?

Bind a key to
osd_show_property_text stream_pos

> Another useful thing would be to add to mplayer the capability to advance
> frame-by-frame, or from an I-frame to the next one.

'.', and combine with -vf framestep=I