[FFmpeg-user] tried scene extractions, but "Output file is empty, nothing was encoded"

[Carl Eugen Hoyos]

Takenori Sato <tsato <at> cloudian.com> writes:

> I tried to get scene changes with the following 
> command, but failed to extract any scenes.

Your video does not contain a scene change;-(

The following does approximately what you want 
but I am not sure if the select filter is 
appropriate at all:
-vf select='gt(scene\,0.03)'
You could also test mpdecimate with very high 
custom values, see:
https://ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg-filters.html#mpdecimate

Carl Eugen