Answers.Body: <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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Body: <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>
  
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Title: How can I automatically remove pauses from a video?
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ThreadText: # 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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  ### 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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