[FFmpeg-user] How do you keep all video metadata when transcoding using ffmpeg?

[William C Bonner]

In my experience, adding a -map 0 option makes copying all the extra stuff
more likely.  This was my command to compress a DVD I'd ripped to an MKV
file, converting the video to h.264 but copying all of the other tracks and
details.

C:\WINDOWS\ffmpeg.exe -i
"J:\DVD\_BARB_AND_STAR_GOTO_VISTA_DEL_MAR_88C3\Barb and Star Go to Vista
Del Mar (2021)_t00.mkv" -c:v libx264 -crf 17 -preset veryfast -c:a copy
-c:s copy -map 0 -movflags +faststart -n
"J:\DVD\_BARB_AND_STAR_GOTO_VISTA_DEL_MAR_88C3\Barb and Star Go to Vista
Del Mar (2021)_t00.x264.mkv"