[FFmpeg-user] Cut-edits with ffmpeg

[Tom Horsley]

On Wed, 24 Jul 2013 16:57:08 -0700 (PDT)
James Board wrote:

> Alternatively, if I have the exact start and end frame numbers, how can I then
> convert that to exact start and end times?

My technique is to produce a low res version of the original file
that uses the drawtext filter to write the exact timestamp
on each frame, then I pick off the times from that video :-).

See:

http://home.comcast.net/~tomhorsley/game/ffmpeg.html#generatetimestamps

The one way that is guaranteed to give me timestamps that
ffmpeg believes (since it generated them).