[MPlayer-users] Using mencoder and edl

[Roberto Bechtlufft]

Hi everybody, I'm new around here.

I'm not exactly a video pro, but I've read a bit about mplayer and 
mencoder and I'm slowly learning about what it can do.

I've tried to cut sections of video files before using avidemux, but I 
always ended up with audio sync problems. Now I'm using mencoder and it 
works quite well to this regard. I was using -ss and -endpos to do this, 
but I've just now discovered the -edlout feature, which is quite 
interesting to me, as I can now press "i" to mark the beginning and the 
end of a segment that interests me. However, seems like people use edl 
to take parts of a video out of the main video for good, and I want to 
do the opposite: to mark a section of the video and keep it, discarding 
all the rest. Is there any way I can do it?

Thanks in advance,

Roberto Bechtlufft