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A comment on Ask HN: Share your FFmpeg settings for video hosting.

Re:Ask HN: Share your FFmpeg settings for video hosting by deicidist on Wednesday July 24, 2024 @01:23PM (#41059442)
Your choice of codecs is odd. If you decided you need h.264 for compatibility, that also means you need AAC and burned-in subtitles/captions or you lose all of h.264's broad support to missing audio and text support.

If you can restrict support to just current Android, Chrome, and Firefox, you can use VP9, Opus, and SRT. Willfully-outdated platforms like Apple and Roku have screwed over everyone.

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Re:Ask HN: Share your FFmpeg settings for video hosting by indulona on Thursday July 25, 2024 @08:24AM (#41067795)
h264 is video codec and has nothing to do with audio codec. aac is old proprietary codec while opus is modern license-free codec with wide support anywhere. certainly these days. as for vp9.. i have already mentioned my reasoning.
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