[MPlayer-users] EDL skipping not working.

[Diogo Franco]

2008/5/6 Asfand Yar Qazi <ayqazi at gmail.com>:

> Hi,
>
> I've got a movie that midentify identifies as follows....
>
> ID_VIDEO_ID=0
> ID_AUDIO_ID=0
> ID_AID_0_LANG=eng
> ID_FILE_SUB_ID=0
> ID_FILENAME=blah.mkv
> ID_DEMUXER=mkv
> ID_VIDEO_FORMAT=avc1
> ID_VIDEO_BITRATE=0
> ID_VIDEO_WIDTH=1280
> ID_VIDEO_HEIGHT=528
> ID_VIDEO_FPS=23.976
> ID_VIDEO_ASPECT=2.4242
> ID_AUDIO_FORMAT=8193
> ID_AUDIO_BITRATE=0
> ID_AUDIO_RATE=48000
> ID_AUDIO_NCH=6
> ID_LENGTH=6065.24
> ID_SEEKABLE=1
> ID_VIDEO_CODEC=ffh264
> ID_AUDIO_BITRATE=1536000
> ID_AUDIO_RATE=48000
> ID_AUDIO_NCH=2
> ID_AUDIO_CODEC=dts
>
> I've got an EDL file for it as follows:
>
> 1015.790 1019.070 1
> 1032.510 1035.630 1
> 1617.990 1622.550 1
> 1622.950 1626.750 1
> 1713.100 1717.500 1
> 1739.620 1742.780 1
> 1751.260 1754.300 1
> 1792.140 1796.980 1
> 2851.000 2921.000 0
> 3060.970 3064.890 1
> 3528.240 3536.440 1
> 3541.360 3546.040 1
> 3639.080 3642.160 1
> 3781.280 3785.600 1
> 4107.690 4111.520 1
> 4119.920 4123.440 1
> 4129.840 4134.040 1
> 4177.800 4181.440 1
> 4237.520 4242.240 1
> 4320.790 4325.110 1
> 4668.750 4676.790 1
> 4835.750 4838.790 1
> 4946.350 4949.790 1
> 5131.540 5135.540 1
> 5181.540 5185.220 1
> 5224.300 5227.580 1
>
> Note that all the mute sections work fine.
>
> However, as soon as I reach the skip section, mplayer skips the bit I
> want... then continues skipping about 1minute 20seconds of video every
> second thereafter in the movie.
>
> I've tried both a stable mplayer (gentoo version 1.0_rc2_p26300-r1)
> and a cvs snapshot from earlier this year.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks
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That's still happening on current SVN. EDL works with mencoder but not with
mplayer. If I use only skip sections, mplayer just shows a few scattered
frames from the movie and is done in less than 2 seconds.