This is going to be a update to a post I did a few days ago, “Run ffmpeg On Mac Without Compiling Anything”. I did get some good and skeptic response. They solution I posted does indeed work, but it’s a very old binary and you don’t get ffplay, ffserver etc. And a nice fella posted a comment telling me just that, and I appreciate that :) Continue reading
Whoaa, Long title there! Anyway, as the title would suggest, I am about to explain to you how to start and stop ffmpeg converting at a specific time. The command variables are very simple -ss (Start time) and -t (Convert as specified amount of time).
Sounds tricky? Don’t worry, i’ll explain it to you in detail. Let’s say for example you have a one hour long video (or audio track) that you want to start twenty minutes after the intro and then continue (used in the format, hours:minutes:seconds)
ffmpeg -i “video/audio.format” -sameq -ss 00:20:00 “output.format”
Very simple right? Ok, let’s imagine you want your video (or audio track) to start as normal but stop after one hour and twenty minutes, then use this command:
ffmpeg -i “video/audio.format” -sameq -t 01:20:00 “output.format”
And thats it! If you like this post and like to learn more about ffmpeg, Click Here to see my other ffmpeg tutorials.
NOTE: I am not responsible for any copyrighted material (ex, music videos) that get’s converted to audio or video using this method.
So you may be thinking, how on earth am I going to install ffmpeg on Mac OS X, do I compile it myself? Install it trough macports? NO, There is a perfectly fine and stable ffmpeg binary out there that someone else has compiled for us, and that someone (or he/she) is “FFmpegX”.
FFmpegX is a graphical front-end for ffmpeg (GUI) that makes it really easy to convert video and audio into different formats, however, I have used ffmpeg from the command line ever since I heard about it, and i prefer using it that way. And I didn’t want to compile it or use macports since I almost screw up my machine once doing so. So I went looking around for a pre-built binary And I found it!
It turns out that there is a perfectly fine pre-built binary in the FFmpegX package itself! Here’s how you get it:
If you have any problems, type these commands and try again:
sudo chown root:wheel /usr/local/bin/ffmpeg
sudo chmod 755 /usr/local/bin/ffmpeg
Do you find ffmpeg usefull?
Yeah, are you using the latest Mozilla Firefox beta? If not, then i highly recommend you to give it a try, sure it has a few bugs here and there, but it is a BETA. And it’s also a great opportunity to give Mozilla some feedback! It’s really easy to leave feedback too, just click the “Feedback” button in the top right corner and chose either if there is something that made you “Happy” or made you “Sad”. And don’t forget to fill out the user studies and check the “Send data automatically” in the settings!
Already using Mozilla Firefox beta? Leave a comment and tell me what you think!
I noticed something a while ago when I was just about to steam some media content with VLC, a window pops up in my face about some update, and i said, ok, nothing special, updates come all the time. So i downloaded it and installed it as i always do, but then i got curious, does it run on 64-bit? The last version didn’t, so i checked the Mac process manager, and guess what, it’s 64-bit. FINALLY!!
