Trim video with VLC on mac

Alec Jacobson

September 04, 2011

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Here's a snippet to use VLC.app to trim a movie. Times are given in seconds.

/Applications/VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/VLC --start-time 170 --stop-time 310 --sout=#file{dst=out.mkv} --no-sout-rtp-sap --no-sout-standard-sap --sout-keep  "in.mkv"

For some reason this is very quick but doesn't exit on its own.