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How I make ffmpeg hit an exact file size (the bitrate math nobody explains)

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The ffmpeg Pipeline Nobody Explains

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ffmpeg.wasm 0.12 hung on the first frame — and the real speedup was not the upgrade

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7 Sept
A 371MB demo video became 145MB locally — the bandwidth math

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