I’m trying to figure out how best to compress my videos for streaming over the web. I’m using FFMPEG for compression, and it has dozens of potentially-useful flags. Looking at random guides and forum posts online, there’s obviously a lot of cargo-culting of compression parameters, and it’s not clear at all to me what the best choices are. Since there’s no authoritative guide to picking options, and in any case it’d vary widely depending on the nature of the videos that you’re en...
