On Sun, 2008-03-23 at 12:22 -0700, Grant wrote:
> I have some video clips I'd like to trim the beginning and end from.
> Is there a simple tool that will do this? I'm emerging lives but I
> think it's overkill for this.
>
> - Grant

You could use mencoder (part of mplayer):

mencoder -ss 1:10 -endpos 1:10:00 -oac copy ovc copy -of avi -o\
truncated.avi original.avi

Explanation:
-ss 1:10    skip the first 1 minute and 10 seconds
-endpos 1:10:00    finish at file position 1 hour and 10 minutes (so the
truncated video would be 1:08:50 long)
-oac copy    do not transcode the audio
-ovc copy    do not transcode the video
-of avi      write everything into an avi-container
-o truncated.avi     output file

Warning: This simple example doesn't handle additional streams like a
second audio or subtitles. Please refer to mencoder's man-page for
additional options, or ask here ;)

Hope this helps