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I have a time lapse video with 29.97003 FPS. There is no audio. The video is too fast. I would like to lengthen it from 10 seconds to 20 seconds, while keeping each frame with like 15 FPS.

How can I do that with FFMPEG?

It is short and small in file size. Can be reencoded, I don't care. I'm thinking, if there is no quick solution, I could extract frames to JPG files and encode a new video with different FPS. I'm trying to avoid that.

Edit: I tried this: https://stackoverflow.com/a/45465730/1442225

ffmpeg -y -i input.mp4 -vf \"setpts=2*PTS\" -r 15 -codec:v h264 output.mp4

It looks like it did the right thing. output.mp4 has doubled length but same amount of frames. Only the file size shrank to less than 25% of original. I used the same vcodec. I do expect the file size stay almost the same.

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  • For getting the same file size, try the "Without re-encoding" solution from the link you have posted.
    – Rotem
    Jan 18 at 9:08

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First you need to take out the raw video data from the mp4 container, then you need to put it into a new container and set the new fps value at the same time.

So first: ffmpeg -i input.mp4 -c:v copy -f h264 input.h264

And then: ffmpeg -r 15 -i input.h264 -c:v copy output.mp4

Note: As long as you do not use -c:v copy (in your edit you used -codec:v h264 which is the same as -c:v h264) FFmpeg will always re-encode the input so the output will have some different size.

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