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# FFMPEG (If your video is loading slowly)

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Odysee and mainly LBRY works with lots of file formats, and sometimes you want to upload a big or heavy video and start loading slowly.

LBRY app offers an extra option that you can enable to get a better loading and streaming
Odysee also has an experimental transcoding feature, but it's not available for most channels for now...

# Step by step 

## 1) Download FFmpeg 

### For windows 


[![](https://i.imgur.com/3UbrKsG.png)](https://www.gyan.dev/ffmpeg/builds/)

### For Mac 

[![](https://i.imgur.com/k3u1VEN.png)](https://evermeet.cx/ffmpeg/)

## 2) Extract the folder somewhere safe on your machine

![](https://i.imgur.com/VmAiVg9.gif)

## 3) Go to Advanced Settings

![](https://s3.gifyu.com/images/giffmpeg3.gif)

## 4) Find Automatic Settings

![](https://i.imgur.com/vpDOMdf.gif)

## 5) Click in Browse, select the Bin folder and save

![](https://i.imgur.com/GfOwymK.gif)

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## What is FFPMEG really used for?

FFmpeg is a open source library/tool that can **decode** and **encode** any video format to one another. It supports almost all audio/video codecs (**h264, h265, vp8, vp9, aac, opus, etc.**) and file formats (**mp4, flv, mkv, ts, webm, mp3 etc.**). Moreover it supports again all streaming protocols (**http, rtmp, rtsp, hls, etc.**).

## What can you do with FMMPEG?

- To convert one video format to another format

- Encode, decode, mux, demux, transcode, filter, etc various multimedia files.

- To convert video file to audio file

- To create a slideshow video from multiple images

- Display input and output and also records input from the webcam.

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> If you can't do it, because you are on a old as fuck computer you can use handbrake to manually transconde your videos 

![](https://spee.ch/7/hb-settings.png) 

If you're using HandBrank, We recommended the following settings:

- Preset of Fast 720P30.
- Enable Web optimized.
- Disable Align A/V Start.
- Save as .mp4 extension

[Handbrake Download](https://handbrake.fr/downloads.php)

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**Ref**: https://lbry.com/faq/video-publishing-guide


