How to clip a movie from specified start time in ffmpeg?

Question

I'm trying to clip some movie from time A to time B using ffmpeg.

I can set how long the target video should be using the -t flag, but how should I tell it to start that time from time A?

In other words: I have a movie with the length of 10 minutes – I want to clip it to get only 5 minutes of it, starting from minute 2. How can I tell ffmpeg what I want?

Answer 1

You you tried the -ss option? From the ffmpeg documentation:

`-ss position'

Seek to given time position in seconds. hh:mm:ss[.xxx] syntax is also supported.