creating clips with mencoder

Posted by Anurag in utilities
Monday, March 5. 2007

I'd been searching in debian packages for something which could help me to create clips from videos. The lousy linear editor `kino' insists on only working with DV files and starts filling disk space with raw video as soon as you open a file.

Little did i realize that mighty mplayer can do this also.

mencoder -ss 1284 -endpos 102 movie.avi -oac copy -ovc copy -o movie-clip.avi

where 1284 is the number of seconds from where clip starts, and 102 is length of clip in seconds.

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Frank Mulder - #1 - 2007-05-22 01:25 - (Reply)

Thanks for this; just what I needed.

nAv - #2 - 2008-12-03 04:16 - (Reply)

YES!
Why isn't this stuff documented anywhere !&*(&@#(*%&

thanks!

MaraudeR - #2.1 - 2009-09-18 16:39 - (Reply)

Both options, -ss and -endpos, are widely documented on 'man mencoder'.

asdf - #3 - 2009-01-07 21:35 - (Reply)

Oh, totally sweet. So glad this has stayed indexed on google.

Seriously, the mplayer documentation is craaaaap

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