How to just "trim" videos w/o re-encoding them?

[bryguy17]

I am looking for some sort of program where I can do the aforementioned. Sort of like sound recorder, if you know what I'm talking about. For example, if I had a movie, but there was a a little disclaimer or something I wanted to delete from it, and there was some black video at the end that I wanted to remove, what program would I use to just trim those parts off of the video, as opposed to doing it in Premeire or something and having to then re-encode the whole thing. Thanks.

[gll99]

If you are trimming the start or end its easy. You can do avi's in virtualdub. Just use directstream for the video and audio ouput and its super fast. If you need to do both then do the beginning then enter the fixed file the second time and cut the end. It only cuts on key frames so if the key frame is every 3 seconds that is the best you will get. There are tricks for fixing bad frames which you might be able to use to get around this limitation but it would be a very rare and special occasion.

For mpeg, in tmpgenc you can use the "file" "mpeg tools" "cut".

[cmacleo]

For mpeg files (VCD, SVCD etc) use TMPGEnc and the merge/cut tab under MPEG Tools (File Menu). This will allow you to trim bits from a .mpg file without re-encoding

[bro-man]

Can anyone tell me how to take a bin\cue (SVCD), and then trim some time off the beginning.
I downloaded it..and tried to burn...but It won't fit on a 80min CDR..
It's just a little too big..(like 5kb)
I have tried to convert the bin to mpg using vcdgear, but it keeps trying to overwrite files..I think it has something to do with the chapters.
When I looked at what it did output..there were like 110 small mpg files.
I also tried to make a new cue file..without all the chapters...but it still does the same thing in VCDgear.

I tried taking the AVSEQ01 file and putting that into TMPG but it just hangs.