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lisamelton / other_video_transcoding

Other tools to transcode videos.
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--dry-run request #159

Closed muesic closed 2 years ago

muesic commented 2 years ago

When I run the --dry-run option on my uncompressed MKV files I end up seeing many things like:

-metadata:s:v title\= and -metadata:s:a:0 title\= and -metadata:g title\=

i.e. there is no title info (and I understand that's because the info is likely missing in my source file). Can I safely just omit those parts from the ffmpeg command line? If so then I guess I have a petty request - if there is no info on the right side of the equals sign then could you please suppress outputting that option to the ffmpeg --dry-run command line (to keep things simpler and easier to read/digest). Just trying to reduce some entropy in the universe :-)

lisamelton commented 2 years ago

@muesic Sure, you can do that. But I wouldn't recommended it.

samhutchins commented 2 years ago

@donmelton Why would removing those bits of the command be a problem?

lisamelton commented 2 years ago

@samhutchins Because it's an effort for no benefit to the actual output and if you get in the habit of doing that then you might have a stray input sometime where it does matter. That's why I wouldn't recommend it.