[MPlayer-users] [mencoder] splitting big movies

[gabor]

actually what kind of error do you get?

is i know mencoder ALWAYS begins at keyframes,
so if your -ss position was between two keyframes,
mencoder will begin from the next keyframe.

i have yesterday split like 10 files, mencoder
always produced error-free video... ( the cut-position
was hard to find, but that's an other problem)

so please describe us what kind of problems you get..

bye,
gabor

Alejandro Néstor Vargas wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> yardbird dijo:
> 
>>[Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read
>>DOCS/bugreports.html] Hi all,
>>I want to split a big movie into two parts. I can create the first part
>>with  the -endpos switch:
>>
>>mencoder big_movie.avi -oac copy -ovc copy -endpos 01:00:00 -o
>>part1.avi
>>
>>But when I create the second part with:
>>
>>mencoder big_movie.avi -oac copy -ovc copy -ss 01:00:00 -o part2.avi
>>
>>I get lots of errors in the output file. From DOCS it seems to me that
>>this is  a problem of the -ss switch, since I should start encoding
>>from a time to  which corresponds a key frame. How can I do this?
> 
> 
> May be you need to add -idx argument to tell mencoder to create the index
> of the input file for being able to seek?
>