[MPlayer-users] How to encode the middle part of a file?
Nico
nsabbi at libero.it
Sun Oct 19 11:16:20 CEST 2003
Adam Nielsen wrote:
>[Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
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>>try using -sb <bytepos>, it works for me.
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>Well that stops the crash, but I lose the audio...
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does the demuxer report NO SOUND ?
In that case just add -tsprobe 20000000 or some other larger value.
In any case I suggest to apply the last TS demuxer patch I posted in
-dev-eng
>I realised why -ss was failing though - I used "mencoder -oac copy -ovc copy"
>to convert the MPEG transport stream into an AVI, however mplayer cannot seek
>through that AVI file (it just quits when you try to seek) so I think that's
>why mencoder failed too.
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try -vc ffmpeg2
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>I tried the original transport stream and -ss does work, but unfortunately it
>drops frames in the first few seconds of encoding, which means I can't get a
>frame-accurate cut without losing subsequent frames over the following few
>seconds.
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you can -ss a little sooner and cut the encoded file with avidemux[2]
>I can't see any easy way around this, so I might try some mpeg-cut tools to
>cut the input file to the correct size and hope mencoder will process that
>without dropping frames.
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>If anyone has any other ideas, please let me know!
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>Thanks for your help,
>Adam.
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Nico
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