Is there way to increase speed of adding subtitles to a WEBM video?

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With MP4 I used this command

ffmpeg -i INPUT.mp4 -vf ass=SUBS.ass -c:v libx264 -preset ultrafast -crf 22 -c:a copy OUTPUT.mp4

But there are some problems with WebM format, I tried to use this command which didn't help

ffmpeg -i INPUT.mp4 -vf ass=SUBS.ass -c:v vp9 -crt 22 -c:a copy OUTPUT.mp4

Баяр Гончикжапов · Accepted Answer · 2020-10-21 05:48:50Z

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Error occurs. Something like this:

[webm @ 0x5] Only VP8 or VP9 or AV1 video and Vorbis or Opus audio and WebVTT subtitles are supported for WebM.

Do what they ask:

ffmpeg -i in.mp4 -map 0 -c:v libvpx-vp9 -crf 18 -b:v 0 -c:a libopus -b:a 213k -ac 2 -c:s webvtt -y out.webm

replace options with yours.

[update] For increasing speed better use MKV. Fastest way:

ffmpeg -i in.mp4 -i subs.ass -map 0 -map 1 -c copy out.mkv

or MP4:

ffempg -i in.mp4 -i subs.ass -map 0 -map 1 -c copy -c:s mov_text out.mp4

answered Oct 19, 2020 at 12:02

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Thanks Баяр, at least it works now, but there is no increase in speed, so if anyone could add something...
– R St
Oct 19, 2020 at 14:48
Unfortunately, you can't increase speed, because you have to reencode every track in input files.
– Баяр Гончикжапов
Oct 19, 2020 at 15:15
But I could reencode in this case: superuser.com/questions/1577401/… Why can't I do something like that with WEBM?
– R St
Oct 20, 2020 at 19:31
You must reencode all tracks to another format to fit into WEBM. You can't copy some tracks for increasing speed. You can try to use hardware codec. If u have intel gpu use "-c:v vp9_qsv". Or do not use WEBM, use MP4 or MKV.
– Баяр Гончикжапов
Oct 21, 2020 at 5:03
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"vp9_qsv" for windows only encoder
– Баяр Гончикжапов
Oct 27, 2020 at 4:31

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