Still possible to extract video clip between bookmarks in VLC 1.1.3?

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2013-08
  • timday

    According to this blog post, back in 2007 or so VLC used to have the convenient ability to extract the clip between two bookmarks.

    This would be phenomenally useful, but I don't see any sort of "Extract" button appear in the bookmark window or anywhere else as described when I select two bookmarks. (I'm using VLC 1.1.3 on Debian/Squeeze to play a transport stream from a Freeview PVR).

    Is the functionality disappeared, or just hiding from me ?

    (Note: I'm not interested in general recommendations for non-linear video editing tools I could use to chop up video; but I am interested in any other "players" which have a convenient GUI-accessible clip extractor which doesn't reencode the stream. Nearest I-frame accuracy is fine.)

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  • timday

    As a (fairly ugly) workround for the above... the VLC bookmarks window does report the byte offset from the start of the file, so I can actually do

    dd bs=1 skip=<start> count=<end-start> if=video.ts of=extract.ts

    to get the extract, but it would be a lot nicer to do it from the GUI. (Although I have just discovered - too late - it's possible to copy-paste the large numbers involved from the bookmark info rather than retyping them :^)


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    You'll probably find it easier to rip the DVD contents to your HD, then use mencoder or VLC or ffmpeg directly on whichever .VOB files contain the clips you're interested in.