On Wednesday 29 Mar 2017 02:04 CEST, Cley Faye wrote: > 2017-03-29 1:54 GMT+02:00 Cecil Westerhof <ce...@decebal.nl>: > >> I want to copy a little bit of a video. I do this with: >> ffmpeg -i input.mov -ss 16:28 -t 5 output.mov >> >> But it takes about 2:20 before the copying starts. Is this normal? >> > > Try moving the -ss part before your input. -ss before an input use > forward (if possible fast forward) on your source, while before an > output it means processing everything before, then start using the > output after the given time.
That was the problem. Thanks. -- Cecil Westerhof Senior Software Engineer LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/cecilwesterhof _______________________________________________ ffmpeg-user mailing list ffmpeg-user@ffmpeg.org http://ffmpeg.org/mailman/listinfo/ffmpeg-user To unsubscribe, visit link above, or email ffmpeg-user-requ...@ffmpeg.org with subject "unsubscribe".