How to extract time-accurate video segments with ffmpeg?

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Ok, first of all assuming you know the start and stop duration; we will add key-frames at that duration.

ffmpeg -i a.mp4 -force_key_frames 00:00:09,00:00:12 out.mp4

Most of the time you can directly cut the video with perfection but in your case it does not help you; so we have taken care of it by above command. Here be cautious to not add too many key frames as it can be a problem while encoding as per Ffmpeg Docs.

Now you can again try to cut the video from specific time.

ffmpeg -ss 00:00:09 -i out.mp4 -t 00:00:03 -vcodec copy -acodec copy -y final.mp4

This will solve the problem as we have manually added the keyframes at start and end points of the cut . It worked for me.

Cheers.:)

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