[MPlayer-users] Re: -ss switch broken in current 3-pass-mode of mencoder

[Arpi]

Hi,

> In pass one "-ss 100 -endpos 102" encoding starts at position 100 and
> ends at 202, giving a total of 102 seconds to encode.
> 
> In pass two "-ss 100 -endpos 102" encoding starts at position 100 and
> ends at 102, giving a total of 2 seconds to encode.
> 
> With "-ss 100 -endpos 98" pass one will encode 98 seconds and pass two
> will just fail, because it thinks a total of -2 seconds is reqested.
> 
> So the real problem is that the -endpos parameter is interpreted
> differently in different places (and it is not even clear in the DOCS
> whether -endpos means "length" or "end position").

as its name says, it's end position.
but according your above tests, it seems to be buggy too :(


A'rpi / Astral & ESP-team

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