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What program to chop up video?

Posted: 07 Jan 2008 10:31
by 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

Re: What program to chop up video?

Posted: 08 Jan 2008 03:42
by 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.

Re: What program to chop up video?

Posted: 08 Jan 2008 09:34
by tayssir
Good point, I should be using emulators and virtual machines more often anyway...

Thanks!

Re: What program to chop up video?

Posted: 11 Jan 2008 16:58
by 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...

Re: What program to chop up video?

Posted: 14 Feb 2008 13:26
by tayssir
BTW, the (in retrospect obvious) answer I found was to use FFMpeg with -ss and -t.