[FFmpeg-user] Generating bloated videos

[Reindl Harald]

Am 04.06.23 um 13:40 schrieb Cecil Westerhof via ffmpeg-user:
> Reindl Harald <h.reindl at thelounge.net> writes:
> 
>> Am 04.06.23 um 12:44 schrieb Cecil Westerhof via ffmpeg-user:
>>> Bouke / Videotoolshed <bouke at videotoolshed.com> writes:t I’ve never seen in myself.
>>>>
>>>> Brings me to the low quality, note that noise is very hard to compress.
>>> That can be true, but still the behaviour is strange. Veryfast giving
>>> more compression as slower and every compression giving more data as
>>> the original.
>>
>> common sense
>>
>> "veryfast" don't optimize quality which in doubt increase size
> 
> I do not find that common sense. I would expect that if compressing
> would increase the size no compressing would be done.

but video encoding is NOT only compressing - it's a tradeoff between 
quality and size