[FFmpeg-user] Specifying Video Stream with V instead of v

[Nicolas George]

Le nonidi 19 brumaire, an CCXXIV, Josh Marell a écrit :
> However, when I carry this convention over to ffmpeg with:
> ffmpeg -i filename.mkv -map 0 -c copy -c:V libx265 265_filename.mkv
> 
> It gives the exact same behavior as the lowercase v option, and again tries
> to convert all the video streams (including the mpjeg), not just the H264
> stream like the ffprobe command does.
> 
> Is this intended behavior? Is it a bug? Am I misunderstanding something
> else entirely about the documentation or the two commands?

You wrote "-map 0": you are requesting to include all streams. You do not
specify, but the default is libx264 anyways.

Regards,

-- 
  Nicolas George