Quick Start Guide to FFmpeg: Learn to Use the Open Source Multimedia-Processing Tool like a Pro

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6. Editing Videos

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I used to save DVDs as ISO files (whole-DVD backups) so that I could play them on my media player box. Each ISO took up several gigabytes (GBs) on my hard disk that I eventually ran out of space. Now, I use FFmpeg and store DVDs as MP4s of around just one GB.

While FFmpeg makes it very easy to convert multimedia files, as you learned in the previous chapter, storing them in their entity is not always feasible or required. Sometimes, you need just a few clips, not the whole shebang. You may want to combine parts of one ...