<p>This can be accomplished with the <code>mpdecimate</code> filter in the free program ffmpeg:</p>

<p><code>ffmpeg -i "in.mp4" -vf "mpdecimate" "out.mp4"</code></p>

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2013-11-11T15:46:16.050Z
Welcome to AVP and thanks for sharing what you found to address the situation.
AJ Henderson
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2013-11-12T08:33:21.777Z
Left a note on a similar, but different question: http://avp.stackexchange.com/questions/8012/removing-silence-and-no-movement-from-videos
v010dya
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Kiv
<p>I have dozens of video files containing scenes of movement interspersed with 5-10 second periods of nothing happening (many identical frames in a row). There's no audio track and I'd like to strip the identical frames to remove those pauses and keep only the movement.</p>

<p>Is there a (preferably free) tool to accomplish this?</p>

<video-editor>
How can I automatically remove pauses from a video?
Kiv
# How can I automatically remove pauses from a video?

(Asked by: username_0 on 2013-11-10)

I have dozens of video files containing scenes of movement interspersed with 5-10 second periods of nothing happening (many identical frames in a row). There's no audio track and I'd like to strip the identical frames to remove those pauses and keep only the movement.

Is there a (preferably free) tool to accomplish this?

**Tags:** video-editor


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## 1 answers

### Answer by username_0 on 2013-11-11. Score: 6

This can be accomplished with the `mpdecimate` filter in the free program ffmpeg:

`ffmpeg -i "in.mp4" -vf "mpdecimate" "out.mp4"`

> **Comments:**
> **username_1**: Welcome to AVP and thanks for sharing what you found to address the situation.  
> **username_2**: Left a note on a similar, but different question: http://avp.stackexchange.com/questions/8012/removing-silence-and-no-movement-from-videos  

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