[FFmpeg-user] Reducing video file size

Nicolas George george at nsup.org
Mon Nov 4 17:22:10 EET 2019


Morten W. Petersen (12019-11-04):
> I'm wondering what the options are for reducing video size.
> 
> Encoding in black and white / low color depth, reducing the resolution,
> removing audio etc. are all options I can consider using.

Remove the audio and the video streams completely, the size of the file
will be 0, you cannot beat that.

Seriously, if you do not say what you want to keep in the video, this is
the best answer.

Regards,

-- 
  Nicolas George
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