Show HN: Ez FFmpeg – Video editing in plain English

Re:Show HN: Ez FFmpeg – Video editing in plain English by andrewf on Saturday December 27, 2025 @07:58AM (#46401547)

Try something like: ffmpeg -i in.mp4 -c:v h264 -c:a aac out.mp4

To re-encode the content into H.264+AAC, rather than simply "muxing" the encoded bitstreams from the MP4 container into a new MOV container.

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Re:Show HN: Ez FFmpeg – Video editing in plain English by Tempest1981 on Saturday December 27, 2025 @10:49AM (#46402661)

Thanks, I can even somewhat remember that. AI gave me args like

  -c:v libx264 -pix_fmt yuv420p -preset medium -crf 18 \
  -c:a aac -b:a 192k \

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Re:Show HN: Ez FFmpeg – Video editing in plain English by stackedinserter on Saturday December 27, 2025 @11:46AM (#46403038)

"-c:v h264_videotoolbox -b:v 5000k" on macos, it will use hardware encoder.

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