Ask HN: Share your FFmpeg settings for video hosting
I am working on a website that has video hosting capability. Users can upload video files and i will generate multiple versions with different qualities or just audio, thumbnails and things like that.

I have chosen the mp4 container because of how widely supported it is. To prevent users having to fetch whole files, i use the fast start option, where the container’s metadata is written at the beginning of the file, instead of at the end.

Next, I have picked h264 codec … ⌘ Read more