Split section of video with ffmpeg

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Published on 2012-10-07T03:11:19Z Indexed on 2012/10/07 3:41 UTC
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I've been trying to get this to work and I'm really close, but something still isn't right.

I have a 14 second clip I'm trying to cut out of a longer mp4 video. I got the video to cut to the right place with this command:

ffmpeg -ss 00:05:13.0 -i ~/videos/trim_me.mp4 -vcodec h264 -acodec copy -t 00:00:14.0 ~/videos/trimmed.mp4

If I didn't specify -vcodec it was starting from an "I-Frame" (I guess) and wasn't the right place. The audio is starting from that spot as well, so I tried setting -acodec the same way:

ffmpeg -ss 00:05:13.0 -i ~/videos/trim_me.mp4 -vcodec h264 -acodec aac -ac 2 -ab 225k -ar 48000 -strict -2 -t 00:00:14.0 ~/videos/trimmed.mp4

Which doesn't really help much. Setting -async 1 makes it take longer, and then the audio does match up, but not until 4 seconds into the video. :/

I'd ideally not like to install anything else and have a commandline solution for this.

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