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gabor wrote:<br>
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On Wed, 2002-09-18 at 21:15, heiserer wrote:
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The reason (I think) why many people are coding for mencoder/mplayer is
that
it is one of the few really working things.
In my eyes, and I am not an expert here, but I think I have some basic
understanding
how movie data is organized, it might be some work, but it cannot be
that hard
to support frame based stepping in movie mode. I do not expect all the
fancy
gui based mark setting, but it should be able to step frame based in
pause mode
and write down the frame numbers by hand. Also a frame based
copying/dropping mode
would require only some break up of frames and reencoding. So what? This
is one
of the key features of an encoder, isn't it?
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i think the main problem is that with those features we are nearing the
place where a GUI tool would be much better...
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I disagree. If Mplayer can provide the basic functionality, then front
end GUI's for editing can easily be put together in Python/TCL etc. I don't
think anyone wants the functionality Adobe Premier incorporated into mplayer
but the simple ability to cut linear sections of video from a stream for
encoding would be really useful. Personally I don't use X on my media playing/recording
machine and really don't want to have to boot into X (in 640x480 on my TV)
just to do a bit of encoding. Ideally I want to use mplayer as an embedded
component of the Python based GUI I am using for playing/recording video
to do quick edits of recorded media (commercials etc). All that's needed
of mplayer is to output frame numbers to stdout that can be captured by the
GUI, which can then passed to mencoder to encode between these frames.<br>
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Mplayer is so close to being able to do this. The reason I want to do
this with Mplayer and not another tool is because Mplayer is one of the few
tools that read nuppelvideo, and is the only tool that reads nuppelvideo
and can output good quality DivX video.<br>
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no, i'm NOT defending gui tools, i really like to use mplayer from
console ( i don't use gmplayer ), but for cutting out pieces of a video
a GUI tool is just better.... yes , you can play the video back and
write down the place to cut and then start mencoder and do it, but it's
really more convient to open the video file seek to the place you want,
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... and there is no reason that mencoder/mplayer can't be used as an emebedded
component to do this. Certainly easier than someone implementing all the
functions and codecs of mplayer in a standalone tool just so they can put
a gui on it.<br>
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bye,
gabor
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Cya,<br>
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Graeme <br>
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Graeme Christie
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Telstra Big Pond Direct
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