Resultant Video is always longer than input audio, even though I am using -shortest option of ffmpeg

Question

I am using the following command to make a video from a single image;

ffmpeg -loop 1 -i MyInputImage.png -i MyInputSound.m4a ^
  -c:v libx264 -pix_fmt yuv420p -c:a aac ^
  -shortest MyOutputVideo.mp4

Note that I have used the -shortest option;

But I have noticed my resulting video IS ALWAYS 2 seconds longer than my AUDIO length. Why ?

For example, if audio=5 secs, output vid lenght is 7 secs; if audio=9 secs, output video is 11 seconds long.

Gyan · Accepted Answer · 2022-06-03 14:10:11Z

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This was due to an imperfect implementation of -shortest, now rectified in version 5.0. So, upgrade.

answered Jun 3 at 14:10

Gyan

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"ffmpeg -version" does not show version? ffmpeg version 2022-05-19-git-dd99d34d67-essentials_build-www.gyan.dev Copyright (c) 2000-2022 the FFmpeg developers built with gcc 11.3.0 (Rev1, Built by MSYS2 project) configuration: --enable-gpl libavutil 57. 24.101 / 57. 24.101 libavcodec 59. 28.100 / 59. 28.100 libavformat 59. 24.100 / 59. 24.100 libavdevice 59. 6.100 / 59. 6.100 libavfilter 8. 38.100 / 8. 38.100 libswscale 6. 6.100 / 6. 6.100 libswresample 4. 6.100 / 4. 6.100 libpostproc 56. 5.100 / 56. 5.100
– joedotnot
Jun 25 at 4:18
That's a git build from 2022-05-19 so newer than 5.0 which was released on 2022-01-14
– Gyan
Jun 25 at 4:37

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