[FFmpeg-user] Conversion to prores, close encode every N minutes, how?

[Werner Robitza]

On Sat, Oct 19, 2013 at 2:23 PM, Boštjan Strojan
<bostjan.strojan at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Converting a very long stream, 2 hours and more into more editable format
> like prores.
>
> My question is: Is it possible to close the encode every N minutes and
> start a new one (generating multiple files), without restarting the
> process, if yes, how?

You can achieve this with the segment muxer. Refer to the
documentation for some examples:

http://ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg-formats.html#segment_002c-stream_005fsegment_002c-ssegment