Drop a comment below—I’m partial to the Lassiter’s fire aftermath. Have an FFmpeg question for your own soap opera archives? Let me know.
But here is the problem. My digital copies of Season 23 were a mess. Mixed codecs, giant file sizes, PAL speed-up issues, and random watermark ads. neighbours season 23 ffmpeg
If you are a dedicated citizen of Erinsborough, you know that the show’s "Golden Era" debates are fierce. For me, Season 23 (2007) is peak nostalgia: the rise of Riley Parker, the Frazer/Willow drama, and the beginning of the epic Carmella Cammeniti story arc. Drop a comment below—I’m partial to the Lassiter’s
ffmpeg -i "neighbours_s23e01.mkv" -vf "bwdif=1" -c:v libx264 -crf 18 -c:a aac output.mp4 Those 4:3 aspect ratio files often have random black garbage on the sides. Let FFmpeg auto-detect the crop: But here is the problem
Enter —the command-line Swiss Army knife for video.
ffmpeg -i "s23e02.mkv" -vf "crop=720:540:0:18" -c:v libx264 output.mp4 (Run ffprobe first to get the exact crop values for your source) Nothing worse than a jump scare from the Neighbours theme song after a quiet scene. I used the loudnorm filter to bring everything to -16 LUFS:
ffmpeg -i "input.mkv" -af "loudnorm=I=-16:LRA=11:TP=-1.5" -c:v copy output.mkv Here is the script I ran in the terminal (Mac/Linux) to hit every file:
