Kia ora Dave,

> Some audio encodings don’t support arbitrary sample counts, so it’s not 
> uncommon that the audio and video encodings of a file has minor fluctuations 
> in their duration. Also video and audio sampling rates often has different 
> timebases so it’s usually not feasible for their durations to be the same. 
> For instance you may have a second of 48000 Hz audio, but it is not possible 
> to have one second of an NTSC (30000/1001 fps) recording.
> So for instance concatenating a segment of video + audio with another segment 
> of video + audio would be more accurate, then concatenating 2 audio encodings 
> and separately concatenating 2 video encodings and then hopefully that they 
> will still align.


Yes, it makes total sense that audio & video streams should be
specified as such, so that everything stays in step. Thank you for the
confirmation.

> No unless you provide that black slug. In this case the duration of the last 
> frame will be longer to cover the missing video.


Thanks. That command is a perfect demo.

> If you know what you want the output to be then you should clarify, otherwise 
> it leaves the guesswork to ffmpeg which may or may not be want you want.


Haha, got it.

Cheers Dave, I really appreciate your thoughtful answers!

Best, K
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