[FFmpeg-user] Removing parts of a video using the select filter

[MacFH - C E Macfarlane - News]

On 08/01/2022 23:43, amindfv--- via ffmpeg-user wrote:
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> On Sat, Jan 08, 2022 at 08:20:46PM +0000, MacFH - C E Macfarlane - News wrote:
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>> To select parts of a video, I use ...
>>
>> FFMPEG -ss <start-time> -i <input> -codec copy -to <end> <output>
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>> ... however it's tedious, because with this method the video will only break
>> at certain points between compression units (can't remember the proper
>> terminology), and it can take some experimentation to find the precise
>> timing of these to get the audio right as well, and often, because of the
>> way the compression works, the first extracted frame is often an unwanted
>> last frame of a previous scene.
>>
>> I have long lamented that FFMPEG doesn't make this both easier and to allow
>> greater resolution, if necessary recreating the start and end compression
>> units to get the exact timing wanted.
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> If you get rid of the "-codec copy" you can have any precision you'd like.

But the entire video will be re-encoded, which is undesirable because, 
as the codecs use lossy compression, there will be further degradation 
of the entire video clip just gain some precision at each end.