Re: [MEncoder-users] Problem with -ss

James Hastings-Trew wrote:
> According to the manual, -ss <sec> should skip forward to that number of
> seconds in the playback or encoding of a file. However, if I perform the
> following:
>
> mplayer -vf cropdetect -nosound -frames 10 -ss 5415 %source%
>
> I do not arrive 5415 seconds into the video. I end up at about 8 minutes
> and 25 seconds in. If I try it in hour:mins:sec format I get the same
> result:
>
> mplayer -vf cropdetect -nosound -frames 10 -ss 1:30:25 %source%
>
> So... what am I doing wrong?
>
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I don't know if it helps, but h264enc which uses mencoder and mpeg does
it like this, and it works
http://www.registratieplatform.nl/UserFiles/File/Profielenboek%20zoekt%20branche%20Overheid%20en%20non-profit.pdf

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