[elzi]

i'm comfortable using ffmpeg, i just wish people would share their secret formulas that can:

    - take a video of varying format (mov, mp4, webm, mkv)
    - give it the desired output resolution
    - give it the desired output quality preset (simple will do - hi, med, low)
    - output resulting file(s)
    - do it fast

i have a giant shell script of ffmpeg commands i've used in the past, but i have to stop myself from getting sucked in to trying to understand the whole process and losing a whole day at work

[aorth]

I spent a bit of time trying to understand ffmpeg last year (seems like you need to re-learn the codecs and best practices every few years!) and wrote some notes down on a blog post. Hope it helps someone other than me!

https://mjanja.ch/2016/07/video-encoding-for-the-web-in-2016...