On Sun, Feb 17, 2002 at 11:11:59PM +0100, Felix Buenemann wrote:
On Thursday, 14. February 2002 23:50, Winner of tha face compo wrote:
+seek to given time position. For example : + + -ss 56 seeks to 56 seconds + -ss 01:10:00 seeks to 1 hour 10 min + +Can start only from keyframes ! +.TP +.B \-endpos <time> +stop encoding at given time. Can be specified in many was : + + -endpos 56 encode only 56 seconds + -endpos 01:10:00 encode only 1 hours and 10min (typo) + +Can be used in conjuction with -ss ! I think the meaning is not clear, does eg mplayer -ss 00:30:00 -endpos 00:31:00 encode one minute or 31 minutes beginning from 30mins into the movie.
since i wrote the -ss code, i can tell you, it means encode 31 minutes. it wouldn't be hard to make it do the other, but i don't know what makes more sense. imo, there should eventually be a much better system for splitting video when encoding, that allows multiple ranges to be specified, on the command line or from a file, e.g. for cutting out commercials or other crap. anyway, the docs are correct at they stand, altho perhaps a bit ambiguous. rich