Crop the end of videos without re-encoding
@ametedinov
Submitted by b'ali' Assigned to b'ali' @ametedinov
Description
I have several hundred high definition mp4 files (TED talks) that all have a 3-4minute long commercial at the end. I would like to crop the commercial from all of the lectures, which would save me about 10-15GB of space.
Performing this task with pitivi is currently hopeless, since it cannot simply crop the end of the a video (mp4 at least). Instead, it re-encodes the part that remains, which takes at least an hour per lecture, and the quality is abated.
A quick search revealed that several proprietary applications allow cropping of videos without reencoding them. I did not find any linux tool that does that however.
Re-encoding/rendering should only be necessary if the user cuts a part from the middle of the video. However, if one wants to crop the end, there is no need for reencoding.
Imported from https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=666963