Answers.Body: <p><a href="https://ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg-filters.html#mpdecimate" rel="nofollow noreferrer">mpdecimate</a> - Drop frames that do not differ greatly from the previous frame in order to reduce frame rate. Therefore, the command would be</p>
  <pre><code>ffmpeg -i canada_6.mp4 -vf mpdecimate out.ts
  </code></pre>
  
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Body: <p>I have a 2 minute game capture that ranges from 60fps to 2fps but the capture is in 30fps. is there any way to discard the duplicate frames so that the video looks smooth? I was thinking of extracting every frame and discarding duplicate frames but that sounds like effort.</p>
  
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Title: is it possible to discard duplicate frames in a video?
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ThreadText: # is it possible to discard duplicate frames in a video?
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2021-09-29)
  
  I have a 2 minute game capture that ranges from 60fps to 2fps but the capture is in 30fps. is there any way to discard the duplicate frames so that the video looks smooth? I was thinking of extracting every frame and discarding duplicate frames but that sounds like effort.
  
  **Tags:** framerate
  
  
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  ## 1 answers
  
  ### Answer by username_1 on 2021-09-30. Score: 1
  
  [mpdecimate](https://ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg-filters.html#mpdecimate) - Drop frames that do not differ greatly from the previous frame in order to reduce frame rate. Therefore, the command would be
  
  ```
  ffmpeg -i canada_6.mp4 -vf mpdecimate out.ts
  
  ```
  
  
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