[MPlayer-users] Best way to cut and encode a TS movie?

[Nico Sabbi]

Josef Wolf wrote:

>Hello!
>
>I have some movies in TS format (recorded from DVB-S).  I would like to
>cut (get rid of advertisements, find proper start/end) and encode them
>to divx.  I wonder what would be the best way to do this task.  I have
>noticed the -ss and -endpos options, but the seem to have two problems:
>
>- They can be given only once, so there is no way to cut multiple
>  advertisements.
>  This problem could be avoided by encoding every part of the stream
>  separately and join the parts together after that.  How do I join them
>  together?
>  
>

avidemux 2.0.34 (test2 at least) seems to work well for this task

>- The recorded TS streams seem to contain strange timestamps, so that
>  the -ss and -endpos switches seek to wired positions.  Is there any
>  way to seek to a specified frame instead of a specified timestamp?
>  Or does a way exist to fix the broken timestamps?
>
>  
>

no, and -ss is not  precise