Snippets

Bits of code that have come in handy

Compressing video with ffmpeg

These parameters have worked for me:

ffmpeg -i input.mp4 \
  -vf "scale=-2:720" \
  -c:v libx264 -preset slow -crf 28 \
  -pix_fmt yuv420p \
  -profile:v high -level 3.1 \
  -c:a aac -b:a 96k -ac 2 \
  -movflags +faststart \
  output.mp4