Body: <p>I want to add a 22 pixel horizontal black bar to the top and bottom without re-encoding. I know it is possible to crop the black bars without re-encoding, but also to add them?</p>
  
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Comments.Text: You've been lied to. You can't crop a video without re-encoding. You can't add areas to a video without re-encoding. At best you could add metadata so that some players will do the cropping or expansion on playback, but it would only work on specific players.
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Comments.Text: No-one will die if you reencode your mp4, people.
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Title: How to add black bars to top and bottom for one h264 video with FFmpeg without re-encoding?
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ThreadText: # How to add black bars to top and bottom for one h264 video with FFmpeg without re-encoding?
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2021-07-17)
  
  I want to add a 22 pixel horizontal black bar to the top and bottom without re-encoding. I know it is possible to crop the black bars without re-encoding, but also to add them?
  
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  > **Comments:**
  > **username_1**: You've been lied to. You can't crop a video without re-encoding. You can't add areas to a video without re-encoding. At best you could add metadata so that some players will do the cropping or expansion on playback, but it would only work on specific players.  
  > **username_1**: No-one will die if you reencode your mp4, people.  
  
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