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Looking for utility to play a snippet from a video file

I'm looking for a utility (for Win 8) that will let me play a snippet from a video file based on time. Suppose I have a long video file and I want to play just 3 minutes, beginning 15 minutes 10 seconds into the file. Doing this with a standard video player is hard. Is there an easy way to do it?

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Nice. Works well. Thanks for the recommendation. It would be nice if this could be done from the Windows interface but we can't have everything ...

BlearyEye

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A final note ... the installer doesn't put vlc.exe on the path. Had to do that myself.

Joe Winograd

> It would be nice if this could be done from the Windows interface

Yes, that's a great idea. The GUI supports the start time via the Playback menu, then Jump To Specific Time (Ctrl-T), but it does not support the stop time. Would be an easy addition for the VLC devs to make.

> the installer doesn't put vlc.exe on the path

I didn't realize that. But if you put the fully qualified file name in the batch file (e.g., "C:\Program Files (x86)\VideoLAN\VLC\vlc.exe"), then it doesn't have to be in the Path variable.