When using ffmpeg to compress a video, I recommend using the libx264 codec, from experience it has given me excellent quality for small video sizes. Original, Updated : cleanup and information about overlaying images. More FFmpeg command examples are given in the following link.Using ffmpeg to convert a set of images into a video If you have time and patience, you can check more combinations with different audio/video codecs, bit rate, resolution, aspect ratio etc., and choose which one works and which one does not. I guess any video resolution should work with this setting. And also I could share videos with 1280x720 resolution. I converted and shared many videos with this format in WhatsApp. You can check the details of output media file details using Mediainfo program. -acodec aac - supported audio codec format by whatsapp.-vcodec libx264 - supported video codec format by whatsapp.-i ostechnix.mp4 - the input file to be converted to whatsapp video format.Now you can able to share the resulting output video via WhatsApp without any issues. If haven't installed it yet, refer the following guide.Īfter installing FFmpeg, go to the location where the videos are stored and run the following command to convert videos to WhatsApp format: $ ffmpeg -i ostechnix.mp4 -vcodec libx264 -acodec aac whatsapp.mp4

Make sure you have installed FFmpeg on your Linux system. If you want to share a video to your contacts or set it as your WhatsApp status, convert it to the above container format. The following container format worked just fine. I tried different container format (video codec + audio codec) videos with various resolutions as listed below. Convert videos to WhatsApp video format with FFmpeg However, converting videos to whatsapp supported format with FFmpeg is very easy and fast in my opinion. Of course, there are many video converters freely available on the Internet to convert videos to whatsapp supported format.

Ffmpeg convert mkv to mp4 720p