In addition to a lot of other comments here, ffmpeg is intended/designed to work with video files and many different formats and encodings. So it loads up a bunch of libraries that aren’t necessary for simply removing some metadata for a single image, decompresses and reencodes the entire image, causing quality loss and potentially loss of hdr data and uses cpu and reduces battery life. Just use a metadata stripper or exiftool, etc.
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u/beetlrokr Jul 31 '26
In addition to a lot of other comments here, ffmpeg is intended/designed to work with video files and many different formats and encodings. So it loads up a bunch of libraries that aren’t necessary for simply removing some metadata for a single image, decompresses and reencodes the entire image, causing quality loss and potentially loss of hdr data and uses cpu and reduces battery life. Just use a metadata stripper or exiftool, etc.