On 04 Jul 2016, at 00:45, Henk D. Schoneveld <[email protected]> wrote:

> 
> On 03 Jul 2016, at 23:28, Rae, Philip John <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> I am new to ffmpeg and I have a question about ‘decimating’ movies to remove 
>> unwanted frames. I have a high speed movie with too many frames (too little 
>> motion between frames) that I want to remove 4 in 5 frames (for instance) 
>> and resave the shorter one (fewer frames and a shorter duration movie).
>> 
>> I thought the following would work after some research
>> 
>> ffmpeg -y -i Test_too_slow.avi -filter:v "select='not(mod(n\,5))'” out.avi
>> 
>> but it keeps the duration of the movie the same as the input rather than a 
>> fifth as long and it appears to do this by repeating frames. This is 
>> obviously not what I want. The original had 700 frames and played at 12 fps. 
>> 700/5 is 140. Indeed looking at the output below, the number of processed 
>> frames is 141, however, the duration is still 58 seconds rather than 11.6.
>> 
>> I have tried playing with the -r and -framerate options, but this appeared 
>> to do nothing useful in this case.
>> 
>> I also tried post processing the output
>> 
>> ffmpeg -i out.avi -filter:v "setpts=0.2*PTS" out2.avi
>> 
>> but that worked poorly since the movie became very jumpy as if the 
>> extraction did not rip out evenly spaced extra dummy frames installed by the 
>> previous operation but a variable frame each few cycles.
>> 
>> 
>> I am sure there is a simple fix, but it escapes me at the moment.
> What works: ffmpeg -r 5timesoriginalspeed -i source.ext -c:v lbx264 -c:a copy 
> -r originalspeed resultwith20%oforiginalframes.ext
> Sample:
> frame= 7942 fps= 69 q=-1.0 Lsize=   92340kB time=00:26:27.16 bitrate= 
> 476.6kbits/s dup=0 drop=31758
> Resulting 7942 frames and dropped 31758. It obviously plays at 5 times the 
> speed of the original. 
Sound isn’t synced that’s another hurdle to be solved though. Audio is unsynced 
and undecimated.
>> 
>> 
>> Many thanks
>> 
>> Philip
>> 
>> ffmpeg -y -i Test_too_slow.avi -filter:v "select='not(mod(n\,5))'" out.avi
>> ffmpeg version 3.1.1-tessus Copyright (c) 2000-2016 the FFmpeg developers
>> built with Apple LLVM version 6.0 (clang-600.0.57) (based on LLVM 3.5svn)
>> configuration: --cc=/usr/bin/clang --prefix=/opt/ffmpeg --as=yasm 
>> --extra-version=tessus --enable-avisynth --enable-fontconfig --enable-gpl 
>> --enable-libass --enable-libbluray --enable-libfreetype --enable-libgsm 
>> --enable-libmodplug --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libopencore-amrnb 
>> --enable-libopencore-amrwb --enable-libopus --enable-libschroedinger 
>> --enable-libsnappy --enable-libsoxr --enable-libspeex --enable-libtheora 
>> --enable-libvidstab --enable-libvo-amrwbenc --enable-libvorbis 
>> --enable-libvpx --enable-libwavpack --enable-libx264 --enable-libx265 
>> --enable-libxavs --enable-libxvid --enable-libzmq --enable-version3 
>> --disable-ffplay --disable-indev=qtkit --disable-indev=x11grab_xcb
>> libavutil      55. 28.100 / 55. 28.100
>> libavcodec     57. 48.101 / 57. 48.101
>> libavformat    57. 41.100 / 57. 41.100
>> libavdevice    57.  0.101 / 57.  0.101
>> libavfilter     6. 47.100 /  6. 47.100
>> libswscale      4.  1.100 /  4.  1.100
>> libswresample   2.  1.100 /  2.  1.100
>> libpostproc    54.  0.100 / 54.  0.100
>> Input #0, avi, from 'Test_too_slow.avi':
>> Duration: 00:00:58.27, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 138830 kb/s
>>   Stream #0:0: Video: rawvideo, bgr24, 800x600, 138993 kb/s, 12.05 fps, 
>> 12.05 tbr, 12.05 tbn, 12.05 tbc
>> [avi @ 0x7fc38a00fc00] Using AVStream.codec to pass codec parameters to 
>> muxers is deprecated, use AVStream.codecpar instead.
>> Output #0, avi, to 'out.avi':
>> Metadata:
>>   ISFT            : Lavf57.41.100
>>   Stream #0:0: Video: mpeg4 (FMP4 / 0x34504D46), yuv420p, 800x600, q=2-31, 
>> 200 kb/s, 12.05 fps, 12.05 tbn, 12.05 tbc
>>   Metadata:
>>     encoder         : Lavc57.48.101 mpeg4
>>   Side data:
>>     cpb: bitrate max/min/avg: 0/0/200000 buffer size: 0 vbv_delay: -1
>> Stream mapping:
>> Stream #0:0 -> #0:0 (rawvideo (native) -> mpeg4 (native))
>> Press [q] to stop, [?] for help
>> frame=  141 fps=0.0 q=4.5 Lsize=     956kB time=00:00:58.18 bitrate= 
>> 134.5kbits/s speed= 134x
>> video:934kB audio:0kB subtitle:0kB other streams:0kB global headers:0kB 
>> muxing overhead: 2.362345%
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> "You are entitled to your own opinion, but you are not entitled to your own 
>> facts.", Daniel Patrick Moynihan (1927-2003)
>> 
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