Taking a segment of a movie?

hbbtstar · 10-05-2004, 06:33 PM

I have a DVD, and I want to rip a small segment (about 5-6 minutes worth) and email it to a friend so I can show him the part I'm talking about. I've ripped the movie to my hard drive, but I don't know how to only take the segment I want. Is there any way to do this? I have only mplayer currently, and I can boot to Windows if necessary, though I'd rather not.

95se · 10-05-2004, 08:03 PM

did you use mencoder?
If so just add -ss hh:mm:ss -endpos hh:mm:ss to your command line (ex. -ss 00:20:00 -endpos 00:25:00)
-ss for start postition and -endpos for end position

sandboy6184 · 10-10-2004, 02:59 AM

> mencoder -ovc copy -oac copy -ss 0:28:03 -endpos 0:28:26 -o peopleskills.avi Office\ Space.AVI

This made a vid of 28:0 to the end, it didnt clip off at 28:26