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Gnome screenshot tool allows you to record screencasts in webm format. For some usecases (documentation for example) I want to convert this screencast to a mp4 format so I can easily share it to contacts in Whatsapp/Telegram/Signal or some other application that doesn't support webm playback.
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convert webm_to_mp4.sh
#!/bin/bash
INPUT="$1"
OUTPUT="$(basename "${INPUT%.*}")"
ffmpeg -i "${INPUT}" \
-vf "scale=trunc(iw/2)*2:trunc(ih/2)*2" \
"${OUTPUT}.mp4"
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