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Mona Jalal
Asked: 2020-11-30 20:16:35 +0800 CST

saving the first and second 2 minutes of a wmv video in Ubuntu Terminal

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How can I cut the first two min of a 10 min video and save it as first_2min.wmv and then the second 2 min saved as second_2min.wmv without any change to the settings of the video in Ubuntu command line? The original format of the video is wmv as well.

video video-editor ffmpeg

2 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    You can use ffmpeg to rip the first 2 minutes, etc that you want.

    ffmpeg -i 10minvideo.wmv -ss 0 -t 120 first2min.wmv

    Then for the next 2 minutes it would be the same but change the -ss 0 to -ss 120:

    ffmpeg -i 10minvideowmv -ss 120 -t 120 second2min.wmv

    Just remember to set -ss to whatever starting seconds position you want and the -t is the amount of time you are recording from it.

    Hope this helps!

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  2. If you want it with a GUI:

    Use VideoCut, it is based on ffmpeg and OpenCV. Goal of this app was to eliminate the ffmpeg commandline:

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    By default is does not re-encode. Your choice is to use the optimized "remux" muxer or the original ffmpeg code

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