[MPlayer-users] Fwd: Trying to split avi file using mencoder

[RC]

On Mon, 18 Sep 2006 17:49:27 +0200
wim delvaux <wim.delvaux at adaptiveplanet.com> wrote:

> mencoder -ffourcc XVID -ovc copy -oac lavc -lavcopts
> acodec=ac3:abitrate=224 -sb ${BS} "$1" -o "${BN}-2.${Ext}"

> ============ Sorry, this file format is not recognized/supported
>  ============= === If this file is an AVI, ASF or MPEG stream, please
>  contact the author! === Cannot open demuxer.

(depending on the file-format) you can't just jump to any arbitrary
byte, and start playing the file from there.