Generally I find that I want to cut at a major transition - eg the adverts coming on. At a major transition there is usually an I-Frame.
On Thu, 27 Jul 2006 09:35:02 +0200 Daniel Pielmeier wrote: > > is there a light-weight MPEG2 editor (preferable in portage)? I don't > > need anything fancy, just something to cut off a bit at the begin and > > the end of a file.And no, kino doesn't like MPEG2. > > If you don't care about the quality of the cutted scenes projectx, is > what i reccommend. > But projectx and many other editors are only capable of cutting on a I-Frame > > The video cut theory is explained at > http://www.radonmaster.de/robernd/tMPEG.html unfortunatly it is in > german anyone know of an equivalnet page in English? > > If you want to cut frame accurate (cut on B- and P-Frames too) i think > ttcut is the better choice, here you can enable encoding mode so it > uses mencoder (and you don't have to read the immense man page for > mencoder) to recode the video. Not the whole video is encoded, only a > maximum of 14 pictures (i think 15 pictures is the standard GOP lenght > for MPEG video) around the cut mark depending on where exactly you > want to cut > > i don't know if kino or avidemux can handle this now, if anyone knows > better please tell me! > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
