[FFmpeg-user] What happens when the input codec is the same as the output codec?

[Marcus Johnson]

I don't know the details about it, but I do know for a fact that it's
re-encoded.


On Sun, Jul 6, 2014 at 12:26 AM, Felix Fung <f at vine.co> wrote:

> In relation to both video and audio streams, I'm wondering what the
> behaviour is when the output codec is specified (e.g. -vcodec libx264) but
> is the same as the inputted video? Will there be a decode and re-encode or
> will it behave the same as -vcodec copy?
>
> Cheers,
> Felix
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