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I have a x264 video with yuvj420p(pc, smpte170m) color space and i want to convert this video to x265 and reduce its file size. I have used this command ffmpeg -i input.mp4 -vcodec libx265 -crf 20 output.mp4 but the video got darker and when i runned ffprobe i saw the colorspace changed to yuvj420p(pc, progressive) How can i preserve color space while transcoding?

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This command preserved the colorspace and also video didnt get darker after transcoding

ffmpeg -i input.mp4 -color_primaries smpte170m -color_trc smpte170m -colorspace smpte170m -r 25 -crf 18 output.mp4

source: https://kdenlive.org/en/project/color-hell-ffmpeg-transcoding-and-preserving-bt-601/

more about colorspace: https://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/colorspace

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