[MPlayer-users] Trouble mencoding a large DVB (1080i) grab

[Nico Sabbi]

MichaelM wrote:

>Hey all.
>I've been using mencoder to transcode DVB grabs to avis, and it's been
>working just fine (will a little manual tweaking to get the -ss and
>-endpos numbers just right).
>Since seeking a TS is tricky, I convert the TS to a regular mpeg2 file
>as follows:
>
>mencoder dump.ts -oac copy -ovc copy -of mpeg -o dump.mpg
>
>Then I run through the stream with mplayer to get my start and endpos
>numbers (to cut out commercials), and then use mencoder again to chop up
>the stream (with -ss and -endpos).
>
>I recently got a new harddisk, so am playing with large HDTV streams. I
>grabbed 9GB worth (a bit more than an hour), and started doing my thing.
>
>Problem is (for both mplayer and mencoder), is that I cannot use -ss
>past 749.9 seconds (though 749.8 works fine). If I run the file from the
>start, I can seek fine with the arrow keys, but specifying a number
>beyond 749.9, mencoder exits with the following:
>  
>

for mpeg never use -ss, use -sb <BYTE_OFFSET> instead