[FFmpeg-user] Do I really need libaom?

[Alexander Dyagilev]

Thank you very much for the response! :)

On 2/23/2021 1:01 PM, Moritz Barsnick wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 23, 2021 at 10:59:07 +0300, Alexander Dyagilev wrote:
>> But do I really need to encode?
> That depends on what you want to achieve. If you use the copy codec
> ("-c copy"), you get a much faster creation of the target file, but
> with unchanged codecs. You write:
>
>> to convert arbitrary video files to MP4
> MP4 is just a container format. If the consumers of your files can
> decode AV1, then fine.
>
> You would need to re-encode if the source file contains codecs not
> supported by MP4.
>
> Cheers,
> Moritz
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