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…Video/audio player: Mpv https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv Video editor: LosslessCut https://github.com/mifi/lossless-cut Video encoding: Ffmpeg https://search.nixos.org/packages?&query=ffmpeg Office suite: LibreOffice…

comment by unmanageduck · 2026-06-23 · in Ask HN: New clean macOS install. Must-have apps? Best browser?

…still some manual review and touch-up. It's not crazy-hard, but by no means trivial or simple. https://github.com/mifi/lossless-cut

comment by skeeter2020 · 2026-03-16 · in Lazycut: A simple terminal video trimmer using FFmpeg

The intermediary solution for me between ffmpeg and kdenlive is LosslessCut ( https://github.com/mifi/lossless-cut ). Also free and open-source... of course it look less cool than a Terminal UI like the OP, but it's very practical when I…

comment by throw101010 · 2026-03-16 · in Lazycut: A simple terminal video trimmer using FFmpeg

…standards of the time, was not worth the effort or a secondary feature that was not in scope. [1]: https://github.com/mifi/lossless-cut

comment by j1elo · 2025-11-12 · in Yt-dlp: External JavaScript runtime now required for full YouTube support

check out https://github.com/mifi/lossless-cut

comment by jazzyjackson · 2025-08-22 · in FFmpeg 8.0

Impressive, but I'll stick with LosslessCut ( https://github.com/mifi/lossless-cut )

comment by xnx · 2025-08-19 · in Emacs as your video-trimming tool

…via LosslessCut's experimental "smart cut" feature[2] or Smart Media Cutter's[3] smartcut[4]. [1] https://github.com/mifi/lossless-cut [2] https://github.com/mifi/lossless-cut/issues/126 [3] https://smartmediacutter.com/ [4]…

comment by miles · 2025-01-19 · in Show HN: LLMpeg

Yes, https://github.com/mifi/lossless-cut (See also: Kdenlive) I don't agree that's a good definition of friendly but that's ok.

comment by Y_Y · 2025-01-04 · in Show HN: I completed shipping my desktop app

…machete and avidemux but it doesn't support as many container formats (only mp4 and mkv I think). https://github.com/mifi/lossless-cut

comment by tredre3 · 2025-01-04 · in Show HN: I completed shipping my desktop app

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story by aendruk · 2024-11-18 · 0 comments

…between the cut point and next keyframe. Unfortunately, smart cut doesn't appear to work reliably. https://github.com/mifi/lossless-cut/issues/126

comment by CharlesW · 2024-06-30 · in LosslessCut: The Swiss army knife of lossless video/audio editing

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story by ingve · 2024-06-29 · 74 comments

I recently found LosslessCut ( https://github.com/mifi/lossless-cut ) that is basically a GUI for ffmpeg, you can make simple edits without re-encoding the stream.

comment by ozay · 2024-05-19 · in Make timelapses easily using FFmpeg

…re-encode the minimal mandatory amount of frames if you trim at a point between 2 key frames) [1]: https://github.com/mifi/lossless-cut [2]: https://github.com/mifi/lossless-cut/issues/126

comment by j1elo · 2024-04-11 · in Show HN: CompressX, my FFmpeg wrapper for macOS

…-cq 24 -qmin 24 -qmax 24 -profile:v main10 -pix_fmt p010le -b:v 0K -c:a aac -map 0 and LosslessCut https://github.com/mifi/lossless-cut for ffmpeg cutting and splicing p0rn scenes.

comment by minicoz · 2024-04-10 · in Show HN: CompressX, my FFmpeg wrapper for macOS

…is LosslessCut[1], though it's only designed to handle trimming and not general re-encoding. [1]: https://github.com/mifi/lossless-cut

comment by datagram · 2024-04-10 · in Show HN: CompressX, my FFmpeg wrapper for macOS

…your needs. If you just want to cut and trim videos, LosslessCut[1] is great and simple to use. [1] https://github.com/mifi/lossless-cut

comment by addandsubtract · 2024-04-05 · in FFmpeg 7.0

If you are just looking for an editor to cut and merge videos, I can recommend LosslessCut: https://github.com/mifi/lossless-cut

comment by addandsubtract · 2024-01-17 · in Flowblade: Open-source video editor for Linux

…there are many options. LosslessCut is a cross platform option that is both free and open source. https://github.com/mifi/lossless-cut

comment by GeekyBear · 2024-01-05 · in Cleaning up my 200GB iCloud with some JavaScript

…https://www.vapoursynth.com/ I have seen some niche software built on ffmpeg like losslesscut: https://github.com/mifi/lossless-cut Staxrip is also big: https://github.com/staxrip/staxrip But I don't know anything "comprehensive."

comment by brucethemoose2 · 2023-11-06 · in FFmpeg is getting multithreaded transcoding pipelines

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story by thunderbong · 2023-10-11 · 0 comments

…Since it's using ffmpeg internally, the challenge become how to instruct ffmpeg to do this[2]? [1]: https://github.com/mifi/lossless-cut/issues/126 [2]: https://github.com/mifi/lossless-cut/issues/1216

comment by darcien · 2023-08-20 · in VidCutter: A program for lossless video cutting

How does it compare to https://github.com/mifi/lossless-cut ?

comment by Lucent · 2023-08-20 · in VidCutter: A program for lossless video cutting

There's also LosslessCut: https://github.com/mifi/lossless-cut

comment by mintplant · 2023-08-20 · in VidCutter: A program for lossless video cutting

https://github.com/mifi/lossless-cut is another great ffmpeg-based tool. For me it is a starting point for blocking videos out of fragments. It works immediately and has nice UI (not just "enter time into integer fields").

comment by Lockal · 2023-06-15 · in Show HN: FFmpeg UI

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story by lnyan · 2023-06-01 · 0 comments

…and use a tool like losslesscut to extract the clips without re-encoding. 0 quality loss this way. https://github.com/mifi/lossless-cut

comment by hrvstr · 2023-04-07 · in Ask HN: Best ways to extract clips from streaming services

…least for h264 and vp8 codecs). I see that you also experiment with a similar smart-cut feature: https://github.com/mifi/lossless-cut/issues/126 . That seems to work quite well if you re-encode with the same parameters as the original but…

comment by behel · 2022-12-14 · in LosslessCut: lossless video/audio editing

Its free if you get it from their github repo. https://github.com/mifi/lossless-cut#download

comment by e1ghtSpace · 2022-12-13 · in LosslessCut: lossless video/audio editing

…the video between your cut and the next keyframe. It will of course not be entirely lossless though https://github.com/mifi/lossless-cut/issues/126

comment by korv · 2022-12-13 · in LosslessCut: lossless video/audio editing

…issues I found out that this is indeed an in-progress experimental feature! That's amazing -- https://github.com/mifi/lossless-cut/issues/126

comment by j1elo · 2022-12-13 · in LosslessCut: lossless video/audio editing

…the case? BTW downloads that don't require approaching Lord Appstore cap in hand can be found here: https://github.com/mifi/lossless-cut/releases

comment by RunSet · 2022-12-13 · in LosslessCut: lossless video/audio editing

…(cutting gameplay footage to upload to youtube). It doesn't have very many features though. [1] https://github.com/mifi/lossless-cut

comment by staindk · 2022-12-03 · in Guide to FFmpeg

LosslessCut is my go to for that sort of thing https://github.com/mifi/lossless-cut

comment by mackrevinack · 2022-08-27 · in Microsoft Clipchamp

> I actually really wish I had something similar for video... Try this: https://github.com/mifi/lossless-cut I am using the binary on macOS. The UI is a bit idiosyncratic but it works quite well and is ideal to cut a video down to the…

comment by lindig · 2022-06-28 · in Show HN: We made a fast audio editor for podcasting

https://github.com/mifi/lossless-cut exposes more ffmpeg params.

comment by smcnally · 2022-06-02 · in Ffmpeg Buddy

I like Losslesscut for quick video editing, but not sure if it has text/sticker layers: https://github.com/mifi/lossless-cut

comment by Epskampie · 2022-04-27 · in Ask HN: Which small video editor do you use?

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story by tsujp · 2022-01-31 · 0 comments

…I want to practice on and then turn those into anki flashcards with some custom tools I wrote. [1] https://github.com/mifi/lossless-cut

comment by hobo_mark · 2021-08-16 · in To remember everything you learn, surrender to this algorithm (2008)

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story by tambourine_man · 2020-10-25 · 10 comments

There's this: https://github.com/mifi/lossless-cut My startup is using ffmpeg filters to create video courses so the GUI is aimed towards that use case rather than being flexible: https://blog.modernlearner.org/product-update-split-content-…

comment by modernlearner · 2020-10-23 · in FFmpeg Drawtext Filter for Overlays, Scrolling Text, Timestamps on Videos

There's a great ffmpeg GUI for doing the same thing (and more) called LosslessCut [0]. https://github.com/mifi/lossless-cut

comment by ycombinete · 2020-04-04 · in How to trim video clips instantly without reencoding

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story by somada141 · 2020-01-12 · 1 comment

…experience for very simple cutting/editing. If you strictly only need to trim/cut, Lossless-Cut ( https://github.com/mifi/lossless-cut ) may also be an option (and faster).

comment by kup0 · 2018-03-26 · in Ask HN: Quick video cutting software

…weird formats that Chromium doesn't. But for common formats lossless-cut is great. It's at https://github.com/mifi/lossless-cut

comment by NelsonMinar · 2016-11-24 · in Electron considered harmful

That's a bug then: https://github.com/mifi/lossless-cut/issues Edit: could you check if ffmpeg was still running while it was spinning? Maybe we need to kill it if it takes too long.

comment by mifino · 2016-11-06 · in Show HN: LosslessCut – Cross-platform GUI tool for fast, lossless video cutting

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story by mifino · 2016-11-06 · 33 comments