[MPlayer-users] Cutting up .AVI's

[Jonas Jermann]

On Fri, Oct 25, 2002 at 07:20:06PM +0200, Sander Smeenk wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> Hi,
> 
> I have a file.avi sized 1481478144 bytes. Codec: DX50 (DivX 5)
> It's run-length is 5165.1 seconds, according to mplayer.
> 
> If I do:
> $ mencoder -ovc copy -oac copy -endpos 2583 -o part1.avi file.avi
> and then
> $ mencoder -ovc copy -oac copy -ss 2582 -o part2.avi file.avi
> 
> I get two parts, one sized ~600MB the other ~800MB. I suppose this
> happens because of some kind of VBR-Video-Codec? 
> 
> So I tried this:
> $ mencoder -ovc copy -oac copy -endpos 706mb -o part1.avi file.avi
> and then
> $ mencoder -ovc copy -oac copy -ss 706mb -o part2.avi file.avi

Afaik it should be -sb instead of -ss and I'm not sure if -sb 
accepts 'mb'.

Regards
    Jonas