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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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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