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Recursively compress mp4 files (actually ts) with ffmpeg in the same subfolder

I have a root directory which haves a lot of folders, and inside those more folders. There are no real structure, just a bunch of folders with some having a mp4 file inside. I would like to compress ...
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Compress with ffmpeg

What's the best way to compress these kind of files with ffmpeg (in the fast possible way): ffprobe -i file.mp4 ffprobe version 4.3.4-0+deb11u1 Copyright (c) 2007-2021 the FFmpeg developers built ...
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Piping Unrar Output to FFMPEG

I have a password protected .rar file. It's large, so using unrar e large.rar is time consuming. Once extracted, the file will be large.avi Then I have to do ffmpeg -i large.avi large.mp4 I was hoping ...
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Largest possible compression for big video files using FFmpeg

I've been fascinated by a copy of “The Emoji Movie” being compressed to 45 megabytes, and was wondering how would I go about achieving such compression to very large movies. Of course, if some ...
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How to convert DV to robust compressed video file for editing later

I have 60Gb of DV footage that I need to store, but 60Gb is WAY too big. I need to transcode it to a lossy format, but I need the resulting video to be robust such that it can be easily edited with a ...
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