#11 Please add Break Object

[Anonymous]

When we set up an edit list (cut start and cut stop
points), we have only those 2 objects/markers/points to
work with. I think it would be a good idea to add a
third item, "Break". Break would let us say "end the
current output file at this point, and start a new
output file", with some sort of program generated
naming suffix, of course.

Any player based on MS's MCA API has problems when its
input file exceeds 2 GB. Some choke, some won't start,
some do other odd things. If we had a "Break" marker
available, we could limit output file size to keep
below this problem point.

This would also avoid any ambiguity about what happens
to the boundary GOP if we do things manually: Extract
the first half of a file, marking say GOP 5000 as a cut
start point. Then extract the 2nd half of the same
program, marking GOP 5000 as a cut stop point. Is the
GOP right at that boundary included in the first file,
or the second file, or in neither of them? Placing a
"Break" marker at a particular point would get rid of
that whole question.

Thanks, --Misato

[John Barrett]

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Category changed to feature request - this is not a bug

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This would be very helpful or something similar. I had a file
that had bad chucks right near the end of the file.

While I didn't need the last 5 minutes and I had put a start
cut near the end to remove the extra stuff, the whole process
would fail because somewhere in the last 5 minutes, it had
bad stuff.

I ended up using tychopper to whack off the offending stuff on
the end, then it worked perfectly.

So, a marker for where to start/end chops, prior to the
tydemux process that uses the start and stops for the video.

thanks!
Shui

[Nobody/Anonymous]

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This would be very helpful or something similar. I had a file
that had bad chucks right near the end of the file.

While I didn't need the last 5 minutes and I had put a start
cut near the end to remove the extra stuff, the whole process
would fail because somewhere in the last 5 minutes, it had
bad stuff.

I ended up using tychopper to whack off the offending stuff on
the end, then it worked perfectly.

So, a marker for where to start/end chops, prior to the
tydemux process that uses the start and stops for the video.

thanks!
Shui