On 15/10/16 22:54, Ana B. wrote:
Hello! I am trying to* re-encode MKV files into MP4 *and am getting pretty
desperate. FFMPEG changes my files to MP4 format, with the same quality
intact, but *the file size nearly doubles* with every conversion. (I don't
know if this is helpful, but using conversion programs like HandBrake
yields the same results: same quality but double the size of the original
MKV.) This is taking up a lot of GB on my laptop, but I absolutely need the
MP4 container to play my videos in Sony Vegas.
Here is the code that I run:
ffmpeg -i input.mkv -c:v libx264 output.mp4
Why is the file size doubling? Is there anything I can do to prevent this
or do you have any other suggestions? I seriously appreciate any help, *thank
you so much*!!
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If you know your input has got compatible streams then you can do:
$ ffmpeg -i input.mkv -c:v copy -c:a copy output.mp4
Otherwise will you have to set either a bit rate or a fixed quality for the
transcoding and thereby control the output size. This means you will also lose a
bit in quality, because of another lossy compression. Why do you need the video
in an .mp4 container format?
Sven
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