[MPlayer-users] Splitting an MPG 1 file

[Dominik Mierzejewski]

On Wednesday, 27 November 2002, Andre Hinrichs wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> Am Mittwoch, 27. November 2002 20:40 schrieb Green, Shaun:
> > [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> >
> > Can I use a command like;
> >
> > mencoder -ss XX:XX -endpos XX:XX -oac copy -ovc copy -o out.mpg ./in.mpg
> >
> > to split up an 800 mpg file into 2 chunks? I had read this only works on
> > AVI files so I wanted to ask first.
> >
> > Shaun
> 
> Hmmm... I haven't tested it, but it should work.
> Simply try it.
> Since the options
> -oac copy -ovc copy
> do not do any encoding the codec is not relevant.

But the result will still be an AVI file, because currently mencoder is
incapable of creating other container formats.

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