[FFmpeg-user] trouble with -vcodec copy

[Arlo Leach]

Does anyone have any further insight on this?

> I just ran this command:
> 
> ffmpeg -i band_formatted.mp4 -f mp4 -vcodec copy -acodec copy -ss 30 -t 30 -y band_formatted_sample_again.mp4
> 
> And got this result:
> 
> http://www.arlomedia.com/projects/ffmpeg/band_formatted_sample_again.mp4
> 
> In QuickTime Player, I see no video for the first three seconds.


I'm still re-encoding my videos when I just need to extract a sample clip, because I'm still losing the first view seconds of video with -vcodec copy.

Thanks,
-Arlo

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Arlo Leach
http://arlomedia.com