[MPlayer-users] Equivalent of -endpos in mplayer?
Corey Hickey
bugfood-ml at fatooh.org
Sun Feb 8 20:55:35 CET 2004
Philip M. White wrote:
> Hello, everyone;
>
> I am trying to split a movie for a school project. This movie contains
> nudity, and the only way we can watch it at school is if those parts are
> in some way removed. Because I don't own video editing software, I
> decided to use mplayer to play the movie in clips. For example, if the
> first nudity occurrence is 30 minutes into the movie and lasts 10
> seconds, I'd do:
>
> mplayer -ss 0 -endpos 30:00 movie.avi
> sleep 10
> mplayer -ss 30:10 -endpos <whatever> movie.avi
>
> Notice that I am using -endpos here; until yesterday, I thought that this
> parameter was present because I've used it in mencoder. However, the
> function of limiting playtime does not seem to exist in mplayer at all,
> which is rather shocking to me.
>
> Could anyone tell me how I can split this movie (preferably using just
> mplayer) into segments specified in seconds? Your help will make the
> movie /Nineteen Eighty-Four/ available to the masses! Thank you.
>
> Philip
>
This will do what you need:
http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/HTML/en/edl.html
Remember that mplayer will only seek to keyframes, though, so it can't
be very precise on the end positions.
-Corey
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