womble mpeg-vcr & editing question

[hakeemshabazz]

I have read that you can only edit mpeg2 files on certain frames (I forget if it's I, B, or P). I guess if you don't, you get an error of some sorts?

Anyway, in womble mpeg-vcr, you can cut at every single frame, so how's that work? Is it going to give me an error down the road?

[FOO]

Womble is capable of re-encoding leftover portions of a GOP.
If the END of a section to be removed lands in the middle of a GOP
it re-encodes the pictures from the cut to the next I frame

[lordsmurf]

It re-encodes that one frames at the cut.

[FOO]

Not to be too critical but did that last one make sense ?

[hakeemshabazz]

I've pulled out my decoder book, and I think this is what it means...

it re-encodes the frames at the cut points? I'm assuming, only those frames? Cause my understanding is that mpeg-vcr doesn't re-encode the mpeg2 when you just do stuff like cuttings...