[Proposal]: -vcodec copy HLS

[juniorcines]

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Hello, I would like the option that if the original quality is used, one can specify if they want to do:

-vcodec: copy

I say this because most of us could have the video in H264 and we just want to use the original quality and have it in HLS.

So with this option it would be faster to convert the videos to HLS.

Use Cases

-vcodec: copy

transfer the video to HLS faster if the original quality is used without the option of multiple qualities

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[abhiTronix]

@juniorcines Thank you for the suggestion. Adding an option to copy the existing video codec (vcodec copy) when transcoding to HLS (or DASH) can be a useful optimization, especially when the input video is already encoded in a already compatible format like H.264. It's a great quality-of-life improvement that can make the transcoding workflow in StreamGear more efficient for many users. 👍🏼

[juniorcines]

Thanks to you, and if when we only want to use the default quality to pass it to HLS, if it is already in H264, using copy is good to pass it quickly without consuming a lot of resources.

I use it in Nodejs, but I would like to have this in Python with your library.

[abhiTronix]

Stream copy successfully introduced for Single Source mode in StreamGear API in commit d4243ab