[FFmpeg-user] Reading TimeCode Track using ffmpeg

tarun singhal tsinghal18 at gmail.com
Thu Jun 12 23:18:04 CEST 2014


On Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 6:47 PM, Paul at MasterMOZ.com <paul at mastermoz.com>
wrote:

> Hi Tarun,
>
> Q1) All frames have an absolute time. Some frames such as P/B are derrived
> from prior frames in a sequence of frames.
> Q2) You ask if "ffmpeg can read time code and process them", I suspect you
> could be asking about trimming a sequence of frames between start and end
> times. You can trim a sequence with the -ss (start time) and -t (duration)
> parameters.
>
> All the best,
> Paul Yurt
>
>
> On Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 7:28 AM, tarun singhal <tsinghal18 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > On Mon, Jun 9, 2014 at 11:53 PM, tarun singhal <tsinghal18 at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > I am recently getting introduced to TimeCode, so pardon me if I am
> asking
> > > kidding questions.
> > > So my understanding of timecode is, a specific timecode represent each
> > and
> > > individual frame in a video
> > >
> > > Q1) Do only I Frames have timecode or do each I/P/B frames have
> timecode?
> > > Q2) Does ffmpeg has capability to read time code and process them
> > >
> > > Suppose I am given two time codes 01:00:00.12 and 01:20:00.24. and I am
> > > asked to cut the segment from source video whose starting time code is
> > > 01:00:00.12 and end time code is 01:20:00.24?
> > >
> > > I have read ffmbc might be a good tool. any guidance?
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > > Tarun Singhal
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > Any Updates on this?
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Hi,

Thanks Paul for your response, But Just to clarify this again, -ss and -t
 are timestamp based not timecodes. Timestamp is different than timecode.
Please let me know if any body has any doubt regarding that. I need to
strip segment whose start timecode and end timecode are available with me.


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