[MPlayer-users] ss and endpos

[Bokor Norbert]

> which is by the way a simple cutting procedure of a clip, then the
> mencoder will encode (copy at this case) 185 seconds after the 100th
> second of the clip, i.e. it will stop at the 285th second=04:45 of the
> video clip, which is not correct since I want to encode until 
> the 185th
> second=03:05. I hope you understand the issue.

you answered yourself :)

when you use -endpos 185, it will encode 185 secs.
if you want to encode from 1:40 to 3:05, solution is:
-ss 100 -endpos 85