[MPlayer-users] Encoding only a range of frames

[Mikhail Ramendik]

Hello,

Jason Tackaberry wrote:

> As it stands right now, you can use -ss to specify a start time, and
> what you'll get is the closest key frame past the given time.  When I
> need precision, I'll use -ss X -frames Y, and then pull the AVI into
> avidemux2 to trim off the unwanted frames.

Thanks!

But if I have to use time rather than frames, I think I'd rather stick
to time. Does it have an option similar to -frames, to encode a given
time then stop?

Yours, Mikhail Ramendik