[FFmpeg-user] Decimating video frames to shorten movie

[Henk D. Schoneveld]

On 03 Jul 2016, at 23:28, Rae, Philip John <prae at lanl.gov> wrote:

> I am new to ffmpeg and I have a question about ‘decimating’ movies to remove unwanted frames. I have a high speed movie with too many frames (too little motion between frames) that I want to remove 4 in 5 frames (for instance) and resave the shorter one (fewer frames and a shorter duration movie).
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> I thought the following would work after some research
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> ffmpeg -y -i Test_too_slow.avi -filter:v "select='not(mod(n\,5))'” out.avi
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> but it keeps the duration of the movie the same as the input rather than a fifth as long and it appears to do this by repeating frames. This is obviously not what I want. The original had 700 frames and played at 12 fps. 700/5 is 140. Indeed looking at the output below, the number of processed frames is 141, however, the duration is still 58 seconds rather than 11.6.
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> I have tried playing with the -r and -framerate options, but this appeared to do nothing useful in this case.
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> I also tried post processing the output
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> ffmpeg -i out.avi -filter:v "setpts=0.2*PTS" out2.avi
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> but that worked poorly since the movie became very jumpy as if the extraction did not rip out evenly spaced extra dummy frames installed by the previous operation but a variable frame each few cycles.
That’s because, I think, .2 x the original speed, 12 in your sample, isn’t a ‘whole' number. .5 and .25 should work, I think. 
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> I am sure there is a simple fix, but it escapes me at the moment.
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> Many thanks
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> Philip
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> ffmpeg -y -i Test_too_slow.avi -filter:v "select='not(mod(n\,5))'" out.avi
> ffmpeg version 3.1.1-tessus Copyright (c) 2000-2016 the FFmpeg developers
>  built with Apple LLVM version 6.0 (clang-600.0.57) (based on LLVM 3.5svn)
>  configuration: --cc=/usr/bin/clang --prefix=/opt/ffmpeg --as=yasm --extra-version=tessus --enable-avisynth --enable-fontconfig --enable-gpl --enable-libass --enable-libbluray --enable-libfreetype --enable-libgsm --enable-libmodplug --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libopencore-amrnb --enable-libopencore-amrwb --enable-libopus --enable-libschroedinger --enable-libsnappy --enable-libsoxr --enable-libspeex --enable-libtheora --enable-libvidstab --enable-libvo-amrwbenc --enable-libvorbis --enable-libvpx --enable-libwavpack --enable-libx264 --enable-libx265 --enable-libxavs --enable-libxvid --enable-libzmq --enable-version3 --disable-ffplay --disable-indev=qtkit --disable-indev=x11grab_xcb
>  libavutil      55. 28.100 / 55. 28.100
>  libavcodec     57. 48.101 / 57. 48.101
>  libavformat    57. 41.100 / 57. 41.100
>  libavdevice    57.  0.101 / 57.  0.101
>  libavfilter     6. 47.100 /  6. 47.100
>  libswscale      4.  1.100 /  4.  1.100
>  libswresample   2.  1.100 /  2.  1.100
>  libpostproc    54.  0.100 / 54.  0.100
> Input #0, avi, from 'Test_too_slow.avi':
>  Duration: 00:00:58.27, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 138830 kb/s
>    Stream #0:0: Video: rawvideo, bgr24, 800x600, 138993 kb/s, 12.05 fps, 12.05 tbr, 12.05 tbn, 12.05 tbc
> [avi @ 0x7fc38a00fc00] Using AVStream.codec to pass codec parameters to muxers is deprecated, use AVStream.codecpar instead.
> Output #0, avi, to 'out.avi':
>  Metadata:
>    ISFT            : Lavf57.41.100
>    Stream #0:0: Video: mpeg4 (FMP4 / 0x34504D46), yuv420p, 800x600, q=2-31, 200 kb/s, 12.05 fps, 12.05 tbn, 12.05 tbc
>    Metadata:
>      encoder         : Lavc57.48.101 mpeg4
>    Side data:
>      cpb: bitrate max/min/avg: 0/0/200000 buffer size: 0 vbv_delay: -1
> Stream mapping:
>  Stream #0:0 -> #0:0 (rawvideo (native) -> mpeg4 (native))
> Press [q] to stop, [?] for help
> frame=  141 fps=0.0 q=4.5 Lsize=     956kB time=00:00:58.18 bitrate= 134.5kbits/s speed= 134x
> video:934kB audio:0kB subtitle:0kB other streams:0kB global headers:0kB muxing overhead: 2.362345%
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