Paolo Melchiorre • 5/3/2023

Quickly resize a video with FFmpeg/Vaapi for Mastodon

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This article details a specific FFmpeg command using VA-API hardware acceleration to efficiently resize and transcode a high-resolution video for Mastodon upload. It explains the media restrictions on Mastodon, compares CPU vs. GPU encoding performance, and provides the exact commands for a significant speedup in video processing.

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Quickly resize a video with FFmpeg/Vaapi for Mastodon

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