Remove dead frames from a video using ffmpeg with mpdecimate

Which commande I should use in win 10 ?

I was wondering if you know a way to remove sequences of identical frames in such a way than only the frames above a certain number are removed, but still leaving the ones up to that number intact. I mean, for example, let's say that we want to allow up to 15 identical frame sequences. If a sequence of 100 identical frames is found, then the result would be 15 such frames. If a sequence of 50 frames is found, then again the result would be 15 frames on the output file, and so on. The purpose of that would be to keep idle times in screen captures, but limiting their max duration to a particular number of frames (for example 15 as per the above example). Any ideas about how I can accomplish that?

Wow, this saved a A LOT of time yet getting much better results. Thank you very much for sharing this !

A nice effect for 30fps footage is to decimate a video to remove repeat frames. Put that into After FX then use Twixtor effect to add an in-between frame to convert the 30fps to 60fps.

It also works on footage recorded at 60+fps which still has repeat frames for whatever reason. Decimate then Twixtor is for heavily transformative music videos where the original audio isn't necessary.

Thank you for these FFMPEG series. Really, really useful 🤯!

ffmpeg -i FILE -vf mpdecimate,setpts=N/FRAME_RATE/TB -an OUT

(for my personal reference when I come back to this video)

its amazing!!!!

Great video, dude.

Thanks... How to remove black frames(screen) from a recorded video with audio?

This is useful to Me thankyou

Thanks. Do you know to do it in ffmpeg - python library ? I trimmed the video but getting frozen frames.

Great tutorial on a process that really intimidates a lot of users!

very useful thx!