I know that because of iframes you need to put the inputfile before the start and to parameters if you want to sure that the start time is correctly used. Because of this I defined the following function. function doConvert { echo "Convert $1 to $2" time nice -n 19 ionice -c3 \ ffmpeg -y -i $1 \ -ss $3 -to $4 \ -vcodec libx264 -crf 26 \ -acodec libmp3lame \ -qscale:a 9 \ -preset veryfast $2 }
Normally this is not a problem: I do not have to cut from a video very often and mostly the video is not very long. But this weekend I needed to cut three parts out of a long video and this took more as 1½ hour and my processor was (on my system) completly hogged: doConvert Original/00233-00239.MTS improvisatieVoorEnTegenDeTienGeboden.mkv 2658 2748 doConvert Original/00233-00239.MTS improvisatieWelOfNietOntbijten.mkv 2757 2846 doConvert Original/00233-00239.MTS improvisatieWatWeetJeOverIjsheiligen.mkv 4620 4682 The time output was (the first one I find a bit strange): real 45m33.66s user 63m9.35s sys 1m0.51s perc 140.83 real 23m18.92s user 60m39.46s sys 0m52.01s perc 263.88 real 29m36.04s user 88m38.41s sys 1m4.94s perc 303.11 This is because ffmpeg spends all its time seeking the start of the video. In the last case that is more as 1¼ hour into the video. I am not using ffmpeg that much so maybe I am asking something stupid. Would it not be possible to skip to the last iframe before the start? Or should I be doing things completly differently? -- Cecil Westerhof Senior Software Engineer LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/cecilwesterhof _______________________________________________ ffmpeg-user mailing list ffmpeg-user@ffmpeg.org https://ffmpeg.org/mailman/listinfo/ffmpeg-user To unsubscribe, visit link above, or email ffmpeg-user-requ...@ffmpeg.org with subject "unsubscribe".