53 articles about video-encoding.
Transcode means decoding compressed video and encoding it again. See how transcode differs from encode, remux, and compress, and when to skip it entirely.
A transcode failed almost always means bad input, not a broken service. The real causes, an ffprobe pre-check, and the poll loop that knows when to retry.
Is the Cloudinary free tier enough for video? 25 credits is about 104 minutes of 1080p output, measured, and only if you store and deliver nothing else.
Etsy video requirements in full: 5-15 seconds, 100 MB, no audio, 2:1 to 1:2 ratio. Cut two legal 15-second clips from one master with FFmpeg or one API call.
Twitter video specs tables miss the two rules that fail an API upload: H.264 High Profile with AAC LC, and the real chunked INIT/APPEND/FINALIZE byte math.
Mux static renditions cost $0 to prepare as standard, but storage and download-as-delivery keep billing. The real math for 500 clips fetched once a month.
FFmpeg builds for Windows, decided: gyan essentials vs full, static vs shared, gyan vs BtbN, with real OS and CPU requirements and the codec drift to avoid.
FFmpeg 9.1 ships the rewritten AAC encoder deferred from 9.0, so `-c:a aac` output changes silently. What to re-measure, how to pin, why it's no security fix.
The FFmpeg 9 filter graph rewrite claim, tested: we reran four documented errors on 8.1.3 and 9.0.2 to show which workarounds you can delete and which stay.
Kling 4.0 TikTok washed out? Most 21:9 and 4K clips need a Rec.709 re-tag, not a tone map. ffprobe first, then the crop-vs-pad math for 9:16, 1:1 and 4:5.