What program to chop up video?

[tayssir]

Hi,

I'm looking for a program which lets you say something like, "Chop up this video at 1:30, 14:32 and 16:39, and save the resulting fragments to files."

Ideally, it's a Linux/FreeBSD program which doesn't force me to use a rich GUI; I want to provide a list of times and have it work automatically. (A programmer-friendly interface like VLC's RC is fine.)


Thanks!
Tayssir

[brass2themax]

Must you use a Linux/BSD program? I find a simple Avisynth script to frameserve to VirtualDub (not VirtualDubMod) does the trick, and if I want to actually separate (ie. chop) the videos into separate files, it's only one or two more steps.

I'm sure VirtualDub and Avisynth run on WINE, if they're not already ported to Linux.

[tayssir]

Good point, I should be using emulators and virtual machines more often anyway...

Thanks!

[tayssir]

BTW, if there are more "native" Linux apps which do this, I'd still be grateful for recommendations, as I often have strange limitations on what I can install on servers...

[tayssir]

BTW, the (in retrospect obvious) answer I found was to use FFMpeg with -ss and -t.