The VideoLAN Forums

Hello,

I have a large m4a file and a list of timestamps at which individual pieces start within that file. With the help of an Excel spreadsheet I have created an m3u playlist to access each piece independently. The playlist contains this info:

#EXTM3U
#EXTINF:108,,Piece no. 1
#EXTVLCOPT:start-time=0
#EXTVLCOPT:stop-time=108
MyFile.m4a

and so on for all pieces. However, when the playlist is loaded, VLC initially displays correct lengths of the pieces and then — a second later — "corrects" them by replacing them with the length of the whole file.

Can this be altered? Is there a better way to solve the problem?

Thanks

No.

That's a "no" to which of the two questions?

This is intended behaviour. Start and stop time are just that, start and stop time. They don't affect the timeline as such, only the fraction of it that is performed.

Oh, I see. Thanks.