[MPlayer-users] mencoder: question N2

[Carsten Schultz]

On Thu, Jan 09, 2003 at 11:00:21PM -0600, James Lancaster wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> On Thursday 09 January 2003 22:13, you wrote:
> > [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> >
> > ???? ??????? wrote:
> > > (I want to cut the commercial, so, I first split file into parts and then
> > > I will combine all the parts together without any commercial)
> >
> > It can be done using mencoder as James described, but you might also
> > want to take a look at avidemux which is a GUI program that is easy to
> > use for stuff like this.

Yes, avidemux is definitely the right tool for that.

> 
> However, if you do use this, I would suggest encoding to cbr (constant bit 
> rate) as opposed to vbr (variable bitrate). No Free (beer or speech, afaik) 
> supports vbr well (which doesn't mean they don't support it)

Yes, avidemux tries to handle vbr (you have to read the docs before
using it on a vbr stream, though), but I would also recommend using
cbr.

> 
> also, doesn't it require rencoding the file to edit it?

No, avidemux can reencode or copy, just like mencoder. 

Carsten

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