[FFmpeg-user] Failing to produce a clip with video start offset

[Stefano Sabatini]

On date Friday 2014-06-27 17:15:36 +0200, Robert Krüger wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am intentionally trying to desync video and audio of an input file
> by one frame by the following command line (full output is given) but
> it does not work. The resulting file has a start time of zero for all
> streams (you can easily check this using ffprobe). I did this
> successfully for audio by basically the same command line only with
> the itsoffset applied to the second input file. I assume I am making a
> stupid mistake somewhere but I don't see it atm.
> 
> ffmpeg -itsoffset 0.04 -i input.mov -i input.mov -c:v mpeg4 -q 8 -c:a
> pcm_s16le -t 2 -map 0:0 -map 1:1 -y video_offset_one_frame_2s.mov

Note that ffmpeg by default will remove the initial offset (yes I find
this quite annoying). You can disable that behavior by using -copyts,
I'm not sure how it will interact with -itsoffset. -debug_ts will
provide help debugging the issue.

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