[FFmpeg-user] ffmpeg -ss start-time issue

[Tom Horsley]

On Thu, 27 Mar 2014 07:07:31 -0700
richard heade wrote:

> If
> they are incompatible is there another way, compatible with ffmpeg, to
> get the frame count, elapsed time, and frame type from a video?

I've never found any two video editors that agreed on timestamps :-(.

I use the big hammer of generating a small version of the video
with the timestamps printed on each frame by ffmpeg so I'm
sure the same version of ffmpeg will believe the same timestamp:

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

I can then play that video and pause to pick timestamps off
the image.