I'm a total noob at this but it seems like compressing a silent video to mp4 via libx264 seems better if you want smaller file size. The quality seems just as good compared to Webm. Sometimes compressing small mp4 files with WebM increases the file size, while using libx264 on the same file compresses it correctly.
If I'm right, what's the fuss about WebM? Currently libx264 seems to do a better job. Is WebM on track to become much better at compression in the future?
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I'm a total noob at this but it seems like compressing a silent video to mp4 via libx264 seems better if you want smaller file size. The quality seems just as good compared to Webm. Sometimes compressing small mp4 files with WebM increases the file size, while using libx264 on the same file compresses it correctly.
link to original-file.mp4
original-file.mp4 = 1.6MB
output-file.webm = 966 kB
output-file.mp4 = 538 kB
The ffmpeg args I used are from this post
If I'm right, what's the fuss about WebM? Currently libx264 seems to do a better job. Is WebM on track to become much better at compression in the future?