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    I am working on a project for cutting and joining videos with the least amount of re-encoding and have searched and read everything I can find. What I need clarified on is, I understand video encoders encode on a frame by frame basis and each frame will have a certain duration. E.G. a CFR video of 29.97 FPS would have frames lasting approximately 0.033367 seconds. I also understand that an audio encoder encodes on a similar 'frame' basis based on the sample rate. E.G. a video with audio AAC at 44100 sample rate would have chunks lasting approximately 0.000002267 seconds.

    What I don't understand is how you can encode only the 200 frames of a video prior to the next I-Frame and have it join perfectly with the rest of the video from the I-Frame on. It would seem 200 frames of video would be 6.673400 seconds long (0.033367 X 200) and the audio would have to be 2943714 frames X 0.000002267 for 6.673398 to be the closest. Depending on how many frames must be recoded, the error could be as much as 8 ms i actual trials. Wouldn't this make the joining less than perfect. Although negligible for a single cut, I would think the sync would be multiplied by the number of cuts/joins.

    I have verified most of the above using FFMPEG, FFPROBE and MediaInfo as best I could and by running numerous tests and examining the result with these programs also, If there is a way to make this better, I would greatly appreciate new knowledge or suggestions on how to do this better.
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    audio AAC at 44100 sample rate would have chunks lasting approximately 0.000002267 seconds.
    LC-AAC audio has 1024 (typically) or 960 (seldomly) samples per chunk. So 48kHz LC-AAC audio would have 21.333... ms chunks.
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    I understand now the audio then but how then can you copy 33.667 ms video per frame on a frame basis and 21.333 me audio per chunk and get them to be equal length. Every ffmpeg script i try that uses copy for audio and video end up with unequal length. Is there a form of ffmpeg copy that actually creates equal length audio and video?
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    I understand now the audio then but how then can you copy 33.667 ms video per frame on a frame basis and 21.333 me audio per chunk and get them to be equal length
    You don't. Basically, you have to give up on being 100% exact. Not possible. It just has to be good enough. And if you do lots of cuts/splices you have to be careful as to not have the errors add up too much.
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    @sneaker... Ok thank you. That was the results of all my testing and I just needed to know if that were the case or i was missing something. I will take this information and keep in in mind in the future. Thank you for your help.
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