On Wed, 26 Mar 2003 05:16:51 +0800 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > At Tue, 25 Mar 2003 10:54:52 +0000, > Klaus Imgrund wrote: > > > > > re-encoding may not work for the same reasons "copying" with > > > mencoder didnt. Plus the reason I want to do it is to > > > prevent reencoding, I mean I could reencode with mencode as > > > well to a smaller screen or lower resolution and get a > > > smaller file. Any other ideas? > > Did you try copying the copy? > > mencoder -oac copy -ovc copy -forceidx result_of_first_copy
This is working and I will use it. There seems to be a significant loss of "smoothness" when seeking after forcing idx though... this is doing it with mencoder... do you think avidemux would be better? Shawn > > > That's the reason I use mencoder and avidemux. Sometimes one > > does what the other wouldn't do. If you just want to split it > > and be able to put it back together on different platforms > > lxsplit is your friend. Only the first part is playable without > > putting it back together though. > > If that's the problem you probably don't need to look further > than GNU. For splitting, the following tools come to mind: split, > head, tail and dd. don't forget du as i use it to get accurate byte counts, is this right? Shawn Lamson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
