[MPlayer-users] Splitting AVI file with Mencoder

[Loren Merritt]

On Tue, 17 Aug 2004, Mahtab Hossain wrote:

> I tried to split an AVI file but with no luck. :(
> I am new with Mencoder and the command was found in
> the web but somehow didn't work for me. Any
> suggestions??
>
> $ mencoder original.avi -oac copy -ovc copy -ss 0
> -endpos 4000 -o part1.avi (copies all frames from
> beginning till frame 4000 to part1.avi)
>
> *****In this case, the whole movie is copied to
> part1.avi file (not upto 4000 frame only). Actually
> whatever I put in -endpos doesn't matter. It copies
> the whole thing.

-ss and -endpos use units of seconds, not frames.