Or Shotcut, which can trim and so much more?
I mean, they all use ffmpeg.
It can trim without re-encode? I always thought it was more like a standard NLE.
I’ve been using LosslessCut for a few years now. It’s really easy and smooth. It does exactly what I want and what the name says, and I couldn’t ask for more.
The swiss army knife for lossless video and audio editing is ffmpeg
Removed by mod
And LosslessCut is a ffmpeg frontend, so that checks out.
Neat, love me a GUI
Oh hell ya. I won’t have to Google to find the specific ffmpeg command I need anymore with this?
lol@typescript and appImage. Yuck. Just use
mpvto find cutpoints andman ffmpegWhat did ffplay do to you
Nothing, I just never think to use it since mpv has more features for general use.
Here is an alternative Piped link(s):
https://piped.video/watch?v=9kaIXkImCAM
Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
I’m open-source; check me out at GitHub.
I’ll never need this but I want to hoard all FOSS software regardless
It is a good tool, but for me it only trims from the keyframes. To trim precisely, it has to re-encode, which, unfortunately, does not work on my machine for some reason. So, I just stick to
ffmpegcli.That’s due to the source codec using keyframes, you can only cut without re-encode on those specific points.
I suppose that makes sense given that information is encoded as a series of key frames interspersed by 'I-frames" that simply encode the delta to the previous key-frame when using most compressed video algorithms. So cutting in-between key-frames doesn’t really make sense since the I-frame would no longer have anything to reference it’s delta to.
Except if it’s lossless so there’s no harm in reencoding to accurately clip files
You’re confusing cause and effect. It’s lossless because it cuts at keyframes and does not re-encode.
If it did what you’re suggesting it wouldn’t be lossless anymore.
Lossless codecs can be decoded and reencoded without effect
LosslessCut doesn’t only use lossless codecs. It losslessly cuts video files encoded in lossy codecs.
