[MPlayer-users] Encoding part of a movie

[Jorge Fábregas]

On Tuesday 31 July 2007 7:23 am, Mark Tilford wrote:
> Is there a way to convert only part of a movie?

Yes, check the man page for the -ss and -endpos switches.  You'll do something 
like:

mencoder -ss 0:30 -endpos 1:00 blablablabla....

The encoding will start at about 30 seconds and it will stop 1 minute later. 
Notice that endpos is time elapsing AFTER the time you specified in -ss...not 
from start of file.  Also, it's not exactly the time you specify....mencoder 
will start encoding on the nearest keyframe (of the time you specify).  Check 
the man page, I'm not sure about the details.

HTH,
Jorge