Worked like a charm Carl. Thanks!
On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 4:56 PM, Carl Eugen Hoyos <[email protected]> wrote: > Simon Daniels <simondaniels23@...> writes: > >> I'm using the -ss and -t flags to trim a section of video out of a >> longer original one. As an example, if the video is 60 minutes long, >> and I want minutes 50-52, ffmpeg takes quite a while to get to that >> point. I'll see something like the following (I know my -ss flag >> values don't exactly match my example) >> >> Users-MacBook-Pro:ffmpeg-0.10 user$ ./ffmpeg -i "Long GOPRO.MP4" >> -vcodec copy -acodec copy -ss 0:05:10 -t 0:00:30 "output1.mp4" > > Your command line asks ffmpeg to decode the complete input file and start > encoding / remuxing after 5:10 (for 30 seconds). The faster (but possibly less > exact) variant is to seek to 5:10 and start decoding there: > ffmpeg -ss 5:10 -i input -vcodec copy -acodec copy out.mp4 > (-ss may not always work with -codec copy but I just tested it successfully > on a > mov trailer.) > >> ffmpeg version 0.10 Copyright (c) 2000-2012 the FFmpeg developers > > Completely unrelated to your question: > If you are an end user, you are strongly encouraged to always use latest git > head instead of a release: git head always contains more features and fixes. > > Carl Eugen > > _______________________________________________ > Libav-user mailing list > [email protected] > http://ffmpeg.org/mailman/listinfo/libav-user _______________________________________________ Libav-user mailing list [email protected] http://ffmpeg.org/mailman/listinfo/libav-user
