[MPlayer-users] Request - Seek to frame for mencoder

[D Richard Felker III]

On Thu, Jun 05, 2003 at 10:04:59PM -0700, Steven Ellis wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> Trying to edit out adverts, and wondered how easy it
> would be to add in a "-sf frame_number" to mencoder.
> 
> I noted that "-ss" invokes demux_seek which requires a
> time. Will this take a decimal point in the time so
> that all we need to do is divide the frame value by
> the number of frames per second?
> 
> This would make scripting to remove ads a lot easier.

No it won't, because you can only seek to keyframes anyway. :( Ad
removal requires decoding the whole input movie, and just turning off
encoding during the ads, which isn't yet implemented.

Rich