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  1. Member
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    Hello All,

    I'm just wondering what are your customs and practices to create a "preview" of a video?

    Why I'm asking is because I'm playing around with many encoding settings and options to bring out the best. But the problem is that I can see the final results only after the full conversion. Mostly I'm interested only in the following:
    - some kind of general quality (I don't want to browse through the full movie, I usually do only with the first 15 minutes)
    - the final filesize of avi

    At this moment the problem is that I can see these above only after the x hour conversion.

    Do you know how could you get the above two, but without encoding the whole video?

    I'm a mplayer/mencoder/*nix user so the ideas for this would be the best - but naturally any theoretical advices are welcomed too.

    thanks,
    n
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    Cut your sources to the first 15 minutes, then encode them ?
    If in doubt, Google it.
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    I'm not a mencoder user myself but it seems to be possible to encode a arbitrary part of your source.

    http://www.misterhowto.com/index.php?category=Computers&subcategory=Video&article=trim..._with_mencoder

    Hope this helps!
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