[MPlayer-dev-eng] Slave mode

[Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski]

On Monday, 26 January 2004 at 06:36, Manu Abraham wrote:
> Hi,
> 	What i was thinking was like this.
> I have very large MPEG2 TS files say 30Gig to 40gigs. I can't edit it with any 
> standard program. I was thinking of making a small app that has a slider to 
> sroll accross the MPEG and let mplayer do the playing of the video out and 
> piping it out to a PS rather than the entire TS converted to PS and then do 
> the chopping. Something similar to GOPchop but handles transport streams and 
> large files. 
> 
> 	Converting TS to PS is a real waste of time and processing power. Instead if 
> it was possible to convert only selected segments, well that is possible only 
> with a GUI. One cannot pass the exact percentage as zapcut expects.

I'd say: use the external index and EDL.

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