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even gemma3:12b gets it correct:

~> ollama run gemma3:12b-it-qat >>> ffmpeg command to convert movie.mov into a reasonably sized mp4

Here's a good ffmpeg command to convert `movie.mov` to a reasonably sized MP4, along with explanations to help you adjust it:

```bash ffmpeg -i movie.mov -c:v libx264 -crf 23 -preset medium -c:a aac -b:a 128k movie.mp4 ```

*Explanation of the command and the options:*



Even the 1B variant gave me that one, along with good explanations of the various options and what to play with to tweak the result.


i’m pretty surprised 1B parameters is enough for it to still fluently remember ffmpeg-fu


Yeah the newer small models continue to surprise me as well. I uploaded the full output from gemma3:1b-it-q8_0 here[1].

[1]: https://rentry.co/yu36i4d3




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