[MPlayer-dev-eng] EDL for MEncoder

[D Richard Felker III]

On Thu, Feb 17, 2005 at 11:31:23PM +0200, Oded Shimon wrote:
> I've finished a working patch for MEncoder that adds it EDL support, except 
> mute.. Couldn't figure out how to do this for MEncoder... Is this seriously 
> needed? :/
> 
> I can't make a patch yet, because this patch depends on both my multiple files 
> for MEncoder patch and my previous EDL cleanup patch, so I really don't have 
> anything to diff the files against, a 'cvs diff' would show me ALL those 
> changes
> 
> This BTW is the only way to cut some MPEG movies - some MPEG movies do not 
> support absolute seeking at all. (both MPlayer and MEncoder crash when doing 
> it.) This EDL patch on purpose uses relative seeking.

relative seeking doesn't work for mpeg files either. the only thing
that does work is decoding all frames and skipping the ones you don't
care about... or, you can try repeated absolute seek requests with
incremental refinement (e.g. binary search) until you get to the exact
location you want.

rich