[MPlayer-users] Mencoder: cut .avi video file

[Anssi Saari]

On Wed, Sep 19, 2007 at 10:24:03AM +0200, spacemarc wrote:
> hi all
> i use Mencoder in order to cut .avi file.
> But if I want to cut an interval between 20 secs and 50 secs, it doesn't work.
> 
> I use this syntax:
> 
> "mencoder -ss 00:00:20 -endpos 00:00:50 -ovc copy -oac copy
> bigvideo.avi -o result.avi"
 
Your syntax doesn't match your description, since -endpos really means
how long you want to encode. It's the ending position only if you don't
use -ss, in other words. So if you want to encode 30 secs, you use
-endpos 30. 

> and it copy from 20th second to the end of file. There is a solution?

Well, when is the end of file?