-vcodec copy -acodec copy

[Michael Rampe]

[richie bee] “is there any reason why I shouldn’t use -vcodec copy?”

Depends on what you are doing.

If you are just repacking the stream into a different container or splitting the audio from the video, -vcodec copy is the right choice as it does exactly what you would expect, copy the stream without re-encoding.

If you are changing bitrate, size, aspect or applying filters, this is not a good choice.

Michael

[Richie Bee]

thanks