[vlc] Re: HDD video recorder for Macintosh

[Gareth]

>> On Friday, Nov 22, 2002, at 05:58 Europe/Paris, Genki Terauchi wrote:
>>> 2.Do you know any other S/W for Mac that can edit Mpeg2 file?
>>> There is not so much S/W that can edit MPEG2 in Mac OS.
>>
>> What do you mean by editing? If you mean cutting and splicing MPEG2
>> clips, then QuickTime Pro with an MPEG2 plugin can do that. No need
>> for anything fancy or expensive.
>
> Can you for example cut out advertisment and trimm the beginning and
> end of a MPEG-2 recording with QT Pro and the MPEG2 plugin without
> reencoding the MPEG-2 file? Can you do this cutting frame-accurate or
> only on I-Frames (every 0.5 seconds)?
>
> On Windows there are programms like M2-Edit (commercial) which can
> edit MPEG-2 files frame-accurate without reencoding the whole video
> (only the P-/B-Frames around the cutting-point to the next I-Frame
> are reencoded).

There are open source video apps out there, but they seem to be still 
in their infancy.  Be great if a editing project was added to VideoLAN. 



wonea
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