Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1523 mails)

[Tejas Guruswamy <masterpatricko@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 18/03/10 12:47, arygroup@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> On 18/03/10 14:41, Tejas Guruswamy wrote:
>   
> > I know this isn't terribly helpful to you now but I find that trying to
> > do encoding/demuxing/whatever is a LOT easier if you just go direct to
> > the command line tools. All the GUIs are just frontends for these tools
> > anyway.
> >
> > Look at:
> > transcode
> > ffmpeg
> > mencoder (part of MPlayer)
> >
> > They have a ridiculous array of options and support every format under
> > the sun. The GUIs tend not to expose their full capabilities.
> >
> > Both the editing (assuming it is just simple resizing/cutting) and
> > encoding can be done with these tools.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Tejas
> >     
> Thanks, but I can  hardly imagine how I can cut something from command
> line if I don't see what I'm cutting. I'm not able to see a blodie in
> red scirt among a flow of charecters (-:
>   
It's a bit painful, but basically play the video in any player, write
down the exact times of the bits you want to cut (hh:mm:ss.00 -
hh:mm:ss.00), and then pass those as the appropriate command line
arguments to the encoder. Might take some trial and error to get right.

Regards,
Tejas
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