diff --git a/index.html b/index.html index 2cb28d6..8d56d6a 100644 --- a/index.html +++ b/index.html @@ -64,6 +64,35 @@
ffmpeg -i input_file.ext -c copy -map 0 output_file.ext
This script will rewrap a video file. It will create a new video video file where the inner content (the video, audio, and subtitle data) of the original file is unchanged, but these streams are rehoused within a different container format.
+Note: rewrapping is also known as remuxing, short for re-multiplexing.
+It may not be possible to rewrap a file's contents to a new container without re-encoding one or more of the streams within (that is, the video, audio, and subtitle tracks). Some containers can only contain streams of a certain encoding type: for example, the .mp4 container does not support uncompressed audio tracks. (In practice .mp4 goes hand-in-hand with a H.264-encoded video stream and an AAC-encoded video stream, although other types of video and audio streams are possible). Another example is that the Matroska container does not allow data tracks; see the MKV to MP4 recipe.
+In such cases, ffmpeg will throw an error. If you encounter errors of this kind, you may wish to consult the list of transcoding recipes.
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