Re: [FFmpeg-user] Is there any good reason why FFmpeg doesn't do "-vcodec copy" automatically.

2023-09-30 Thread Stéphane Archer
Dear Reindl Harald, Seeing the sarcastic tone of your emails and finishing your emails with "case closed" when someone is asking a question and is opening a discussion doesn't make you appear smart, on the contrary actually. Yes, you can always specify "-vcodec copy" when you need to, that is not

Re: [FFmpeg-user] Is there any good reason why FFmpeg doesn't do "-vcodec copy" automatically.

2023-09-30 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 30.09.23 um 21:29 schrieb Carl Zwanzig: On 9/30/2023 12:07 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: is there a good reason to throw a video file through ffmpeg when you don't want to touch it? Changing the container or working only with the audio or subtitle tracks. So yes, there is a good reason wha

Re: [FFmpeg-user] Is there any good reason why FFmpeg doesn't do "-vcodec copy" automatically.

2023-09-30 Thread Phil Rhodes via ffmpeg-user
> is there a good reason to throw a video file through ffmpeg when you> don't >want to touch it? I guess you might want to touch the audio but not the video, maybe? In general, I suspect the reason it's not easy to implement the requested feature is that it isn't often trivial, or even possible

Re: [FFmpeg-user] Is there any good reason why FFmpeg doesn't do "-vcodec copy" automatically.

2023-09-30 Thread Steven Kan
> On Sep 30, 2023, at 12:07 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: > > > Am 30.09.23 um 20:46 schrieb Stéphane Archer: >> Is there any good reason why FFmpeg which sees that the video file input >> and output match every single characteristic doesn't copy the stream to >> avoid useless reencoding? >> Basicall

Re: [FFmpeg-user] Is there any good reason why FFmpeg doesn't do "-vcodec copy" automatically.

2023-09-30 Thread Carl Zwanzig
On 9/30/2023 12:07 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: is there a good reason to throw a video file through ffmpeg when you don't want to touch it? Changing the container or working only with the audio or subtitle tracks. So yes, there is a good reason. z! ___

Re: [FFmpeg-user] Is there any good reason why FFmpeg doesn't do "-vcodec copy" automatically.

2023-09-30 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 30.09.23 um 20:46 schrieb Stéphane Archer: Is there any good reason why FFmpeg which sees that the video file input and output match every single characteristic doesn't copy the stream to avoid useless reencoding? Basically doing "-vcodec copy" automatically. is there a good reason to thro

[FFmpeg-user] Is there any good reason why FFmpeg doesn't do "-vcodec copy" automatically.

2023-09-30 Thread Stéphane Archer
Is there any good reason why FFmpeg which sees that the video file input and output match every single characteristic doesn't copy the stream to avoid useless reencoding? Basically doing "-vcodec copy" automatically. -- Best Regards, Stephane Archer __