[FFmpeg-user] trimmed audio has wrong duration

[Ted Park]

> _ffprobe.exe -v 0 -sexagesimal -show_entries format^=duration -of
> compact^=p^=0^:nk^=1 _audio.flac
> 1:31:29.848938
> 
> 
> 5489.848938 - 1.001 = 5488.847938
> 
> 

What is the point of doing this calculation?

> I'm trying to trim 1.001 seconds from the beginning of a FLAC file.
> But the output has the wrong duration (same as the input) and so it's
> corrupt.

It’s probably because flac is mostly a stream format, and you’re doing a stream copy. Re-encoding should fix all of this, it’s relatively inexpensive, and it’s lossless after all, but if you really don’t want this, maybe try putting it in an ogg.