Simon Roberts <[email protected]> writes: > On Sat, Aug 15, 2020 at 5:01 AM Cecil Westerhof <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Through scripts I use ffmpeg for cutting and compressing videos and >> sometimes adding a watermark. Nothing fancy, but handy. >> >> In the past the original file was between 4 to 13 times bigger as the >> compressed file. Today I compressed a few files again. The compression >> was almost non existing to less as three. >> > > [...] > > >> > > What could be happening here? > > > The most immediate thought is that zoom improved their compression > algorithm and now there's not so much room left for a secondary > improvement. > > You might want to take a look at the original, perhaps using ffprobe, to > determine what codec was used, and what bitrate it started out with.
No, that is not the case. These where videos I shot with my Sony handycam. So uncompressed files. But maybe I should have described it a bit clearer. But there is nothing inherently wrong with the way I call ffmpeg? -- Cecil Westerhof Senior Software Engineer LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/cecilwesterhof _______________________________________________ ffmpeg-user mailing list [email protected] https://ffmpeg.org/mailman/listinfo/ffmpeg-user To unsubscribe, visit link above, or email [email protected] with subject "unsubscribe".
