Re: [gentoo-user] editing MPEG2

[Nick Rout <nick@rout.co.nz>]

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!
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