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What parameters should I be looking at to reduce the size of a .MOV file?
My Canon 60D creates .MOV files when recording video and I've found out that the .MOV container has an H264 video stream and a PCM audio stream.
I've used ffmpeg and GSpot to look at some of my ...
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Why can't Quicktime play a movie file encoded by FFmpeg? [duplicate]
When I try to open a movie I just created with the command:
ffmpeg -pattern_type glob -i '*.JPG' -s 640x480 movie.mp4
I get an error from QuickTime:
The document “movie.mp4” could not be opened.
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Re-encode 4K video to H.265/HEVC with FFmpeg for playback in QuickTime
I have a one hour 4K video which was weighing in at 10 GB. I thought I'd try re-encoding to HEVC using FFmpeg to try to save space, something I hadn't tried before.
However, I switched the container ...
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How to accurately split and combine videos with ffmpeg respecting inpoint/outpoint
I'm learning how to split and combine videos with ffmpeg. Presently I'm practicing on a 799 KB MP4, one_through_ten-timestamped.mp4, where each frame has a burnt-in "frame number" (up to frame 40, the ...
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Lossless H.264 MP4 file created from images cannot be played in QuickTime
I'm trying to find the optimum settings for creating a .mp4 file that will load easilly both on Mac and Windows.
Right now with these settings
f image2 -pattern_type glob -i '*.png' -vcodec libx264 -...
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Enabling all sound tracks in a .mov via ffmpeg
I run the following command:
ffmpeg -i "SToutput.wav" -filter_complex "[0:a]channelsplit=channel_layout=stereo[left][right]" -map "[left]" -map "[right]" -c:a ...
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