It says 'might', I used -ss with -c:v copy, and I got no problem too.
On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 7:27 PM, Lars Kiesow <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi everyone, > yesterday a college of mine brought to my attention the following > sentence from the FFmpeg wiki: > > “If you use -ss with -c:v copy, the resulting bitstream might end up > being choppy, not playable, or out of sync with the audio stream, > since ffmpeg is forced to only use/split on i-frames.” [1] > > I'm regularly using bitstream copy together with seeking (-ss as input > option) and can't remember having any problems. Is this statement still > true? > > I could understand that when -ss is used as output parameter it might > cause problems as ffmpeg will then decode the input stream but still > tries to use bitstream copy. Two things which kind of clash. But when > -ss is used as input option? > > Regards, > Lars > > [1] http://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/Seeking%20with%20FFmpeg > > _______________________________________________ > ffmpeg-user mailing list > [email protected] > http://ffmpeg.org/mailman/listinfo/ffmpeg-user > > _______________________________________________ ffmpeg-user mailing list [email protected] http://ffmpeg.org/mailman/listinfo/ffmpeg-user
