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Looking to compress just a PGS stream of a video

I have a video stored as an mkv with pgs subtitles. I noticed when I burn the subtitles in with this command hereffmpeg -i "movie.mkv" -filter_complex [0:v][vid];[0:s:1][sub];[vid][sub]...
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How to compress a video to VVC(h266) or Versatile video Coding

I have a h264 video. I want to compress it to Versatile Video Coding(h266) by using ffmpeg. Can anyone tell me how to do it by using ffmpeg or any other way.
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How can I reduce the file size of a video encoded with wmv2 in ffmpeg?

I have some videos of a slide presentation with audio and need to put them in a wmv container. These videos are intended to be viewed with Windows Media Player. I initially made the mistake to use the ...
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OBS settings for recording presentation (still screen) with mouse cursor in low size and good quality?

How could I reproduce these settings with OBS Studio FFmpeg recorder? Format : MPEG-4 Format profile : Base Media / Version 2 Codec ID : mp42 (isom/mp42) Format : AVC Format profile : [email protected] Format ...
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libx265 & ffmpeg: the better compression, the larger files?

Trying to squeeze the last bit, I made the finding, that my files get larger then smaller. Unfortunately I must have misinterpreted some parameters. Maybe you can help me. The reference is -preset ...
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Does an FFmpeg preset have any use if I'm using -crf 0?

I'm encoding a video for upload to YouTube and Facebook using libx264 and setting -crf 0. Is there any benefit to using a preset as well? My understanding is that the preset affects encoding speed/...
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How can I compress video by taking advantage of its static content?

I have an HD video that is a presentation, so it consists mostly of still images. It's a 50 minute, 200MB MP4 file, downloaded from YouTube. Is there a way to take advantage of the static nature of ...
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