Should I be concerned before I share a video I downloaded from a site I needed to log in to with a username and password? Does the file I have include data that references my account? If so is there away to remove it before I share it?
Signed I am tired of feeling like I don’t contribute to the community.
You are viewing a single thread.
View all comments 19 points
*
It’s unlikely that there’s some identifying information, but you can use ffmpeg (using the “copy” codec to avoid a re-encode) to strip metadata. It’s also theoretically possible for the video to have used some stenography techniques, but that would be much harder and expensive for the video creator/publisher so I doubt that happened.
2 points
1 point
Would this require specific stripping flags or is a simple
ffmpeg -i video.mkv -c:v copy -c:a copy out.mkv
enough?
3 points
