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Converting FLV to MP4 without re-encoding on handbrake?

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On 11/23/2020 at 6:46 AM, williamcll said:

on ffmpeg, all you need is to enter ffmpeg -i input.flv -c copy output.mp4 and it would just remove the flash parts of the video. How do you do this in Handbrake?

Handbrake is just a wrapper over ffmpeg. FLV is not flash, it's just a video container that the flash player knows how to read.

 

Pretty much ALL the "gui" tools out there, even ones you pay for use ffmpeg as their backend, so they all have the same feature capability. AVIdemux is actually a video editor, but it's designed to cut videos, but can re-encode them.

 

You can't get any easier than using ffmpeg itself to this simple thing though. Just create a batch file/shell script if you don't want to look at the terminal

  

rem container change with ffmpeg
ffmpeg -i %1 -c:av copy %1.mp4

 

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on ffmpeg, all you need is to enter ffmpeg -i input.flv -c copy output.mp4 and it would just remove the flash parts of the video. How do you do this in Handbrake?

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I don't believe Handbrake supports muxing at all so it will always force a re-encode, as the developers state it's outside the scope of the program (https://github.com/HandBrake/HandBrake/issues/264#issuecomment-233147775).

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avidemux will do.

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On 11/23/2020 at 11:20 PM, Kilrah said:

avidemux will do.

How good is this compared to FFMPEG? Also among the many GUIs, which FFMPEG would be the best for this situation?

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I don't know what you mean by good, you throw the flv in, select mp4 container and save, and you've got your remuxed mp4 in a couple of seconds...

 

No idea about ffmpeg guis.

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On 11/23/2020 at 6:46 AM, williamcll said:

on ffmpeg, all you need is to enter ffmpeg -i input.flv -c copy output.mp4 and it would just remove the flash parts of the video. How do you do this in Handbrake?

Handbrake is just a wrapper over ffmpeg. FLV is not flash, it's just a video container that the flash player knows how to read.

 

Pretty much ALL the "gui" tools out there, even ones you pay for use ffmpeg as their backend, so they all have the same feature capability. AVIdemux is actually a video editor, but it's designed to cut videos, but can re-encode them.

 

You can't get any easier than using ffmpeg itself to this simple thing though. Just create a batch file/shell script if you don't want to look at the terminal

  

rem container change with ffmpeg
ffmpeg -i %1 -c:av copy %1.mp4

 

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