> compression

5 commands for ffmpeg compression

// compression

5 commands

Compress video with CRF quality control

$ ffmpeg -i input.mp4 -c:v libx264 -crf 23 -c:a aac output.mp4

Two-pass encoding for target file size

$ ffmpeg -i input.mp4 -c:v libx264 -b:v 1M -pass 1 -f null /dev/null

Hardware-accelerated encoding with VideoToolbox

$ ffmpeg -i input.mp4 -c:v h264_videotoolbox -b:v 5M output.mp4

Hardware-accelerated encoding with NVENC

$ ffmpeg -i input.mp4 -c:v h264_nvenc -preset p7 -cq 23 output.mp4

Reduce file size by limiting bitrate

$ ffmpeg -i input.mp4 -b:v 1M -maxrate 1M -bufsize 2M -c:a aac output.mp4

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