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Compress mp4 using FFMPEG
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ffmpeg-compress-mp4
$ ffmpeg -i input.mp4 -vcodec h264 -acodec mp2 output.mp4
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Wouldn't it be much easier to use video compressor software? There are quite a few wonderful and high quality video compressors out there.

ffmpeg is video compression software (among many other things), as far as I can tell the only difference is that you run it from a command line instead of a GUI, and it's free.

Agreed. But for those who are not skillful in coding and programming, a software with simple GUI, especially when it's free, would be much easier to use.

But you will learn way more from using ffmpeg (which you would anyways with the GUI, just with extra steps, and probably some adware, or a paywall too).

Agreed, from the aspect of learning.

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Sjonijoni commented Jun 30, 2025 •
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Free YouTube to Mp3 Converter here: [savetubes.com](url) [youtuberipper.com](url)

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