[MPlayer-users] Cutting avis with ss and endpos

[rcooley]

On Mon, 13 Oct 2003 23:24:26 +0200
Lehmeier Michael <m_lehmeier at gmx.de> wrote:

> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read
> DOCS/bugreports.html]
> > From: Manuel Eduardo Correia <mcc at ncc.up.pt>
> > On Mon, 2003-10-13 at 11:41, Lehmeier Michael wrote:
> > > Hi!
> > > 
> > > I'm new to record AVIs and further encode them to mpeg.
> > > I had a tool to cut mpegs, but so far I have not found a tool to
> > > cut AVIs (mpeg4) on linux.
> > > 
> 
> > Take a look at avidemux:
> > http://fixounet.free.fr/avidemux/
> 
> Now that you mention it, and searching the old messages I can't
> understand how I could miss this before. Well, until a few days ago I
> only handled mpeg-files.
> Thanks.
> 
> Anyway, avidemux is a great and comfortable tool, exactly what I
> needed. Only, the 10 second tolerance for cutting persists.

With avidemux, you can cut on any single frame you want, just enable the
"Smart Copy" feature.

> But there is also "Key frames are significantly larger than P or B
> frames, so the less key frames you have, better the overall movie will
> be."
> Huh?
> Shouldn't it be the other way, the more P-frames I have, the better
> the output? After all, more memory is used which should result in
> better quality.
The more space you use for keyframes, the less you
are able to use for the rest of the video.