[FFmpeg-user] Cutting video at i-frames to avoid recoding

[Carl Eugen Hoyos]

Andy Civil <andycivil <at> gmail.com> writes:

> It would be perfectly acceptable if the first 
> frames were simply grey

FFmpeg by default only seeks to key-frames.
(MPlayer developers do not like this and set a 
flag to allow to seek to - grey - non-key frames, 
but I am not sure this can be done from the 
command line.)

Carl Eugen