[MPlayer-users] frame selection/editing/stop-encoding

[gabor]

On Wed, 2002-09-18 at 21:15, heiserer wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> The reason (I think) why many people are coding for mencoder/mplayer is
> that
> it is one of the few really working things.
> In my eyes, and I am not an expert here, but I think I have some basic
> understanding
> how movie data is organized, it might be some work, but it cannot be
> that hard
> to support frame based stepping in movie mode. I do not expect all the
> fancy
> gui based mark setting, but it should be able to step frame based in
> pause mode
> and write down the frame numbers by hand. Also a frame based
> copying/dropping mode
> would require only some break up of frames and reencoding. So what? This
> is one
> of the key features of an encoder, isn't it?

i think the main problem is that with those features we are nearing the
place where a GUI tool would be much better...

no, i'm NOT defending gui tools, i really like to use mplayer from
console ( i don't use gmplayer ), but for cutting out pieces of a video
a GUI tool is just better.... yes , you can play the video back and
write down the place to cut and then start mencoder and do it, but it's
really more convient to open the video file seek to the place you want,
hit the <begin> button, seek to the next place and hit <end>.


bye,
gabor

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