[Libav-user] Seeking during trimming command takes quite a while

[Simon Daniels]

Worked like a charm Carl. Thanks!

On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 4:56 PM, Carl Eugen Hoyos <cehoyos at ag.or.at> wrote:
> Simon Daniels <simondaniels23 at ...> writes:
>
>> I'm using the -ss and -t flags to trim a section of video out of a
>> longer original one. As an example, if the video is 60 minutes long,
>> and I want minutes 50-52, ffmpeg takes quite a while to get to that
>> point. I'll see something like the following (I know my -ss flag
>> values don't exactly match my example)
>>
>> Users-MacBook-Pro:ffmpeg-0.10 user$ ./ffmpeg -i "Long GOPRO.MP4"
>> -vcodec copy -acodec copy -ss 0:05:10 -t 0:00:30 "output1.mp4"
>
> Your command line asks ffmpeg to decode the complete input file and start
> encoding / remuxing after 5:10 (for 30 seconds). The faster (but possibly less
> exact) variant is to seek to 5:10 and start decoding there:
> ffmpeg -ss 5:10 -i input -vcodec copy -acodec copy out.mp4
> (-ss may not always work with -codec copy but I just tested it successfully on a
> mov trailer.)
>
>> ffmpeg version 0.10 Copyright (c) 2000-2012 the FFmpeg developers
>
> Completely unrelated to your question:
> If you are an end user, you are strongly encouraged to always use latest git
> head instead of a release: git head always contains more features and fixes.
>
> Carl Eugen
>
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