Streaming services (HBO Max, Hulu, Amazon) each use different encoding standards. Some use H.264 (AVC), some use H.265 (HEVC), and the bleeding-edge ones use AV1. This is a problem when you want to watch "Night Family" on your 2015 iPad, transcode "Full Meta Jackrick" for your smart fridge, or simply extract the audio of Rick’s "Eek barba durkle, someone's getting laid in college" as a ringtone.
When you run FFmpeg on a Rick and Morty file, you are engaging in the same act of rebellious engineering that Rick uses against the Galactic Federation. You are saying: "I refuse to accept the default playback parameters. I will re-encode reality at a variable bitrate of 5000 kbps." By the end of Season 6, Rick had his ultimate victory: He found Rick Prime. The fan had their own victory: a perfectly optimized library of the season, taking up only 4.7GB on a USB drive labeled "Portal Fluid Backup." rick and morty s06 ffmpeg
By: A Digital Archivist (Who Also Burps a Lot) Streaming services (HBO Max, Hulu, Amazon) each use
(And I’m running -preset veryslow ).