[Mplayer-cvslog] CVS: main/DOCS encoding.html,1.26,1.27 mencoder.1,1.27,1.28

[D Richard Felker III]

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