S01E04 has dynamic audio ranges. If you are watching on laptop speakers, you might struggle to hear dialogue over the background score.
ffmpeg -i "path/to/House_of_the_Dragon_S01E04.mp4" -b:v 15M output.mp4 house of the dragon s01e04 ffmpeg
For users working with a local copy of House of the Dragon Season 1, Episode 4 (“King of the Narrow Sea”), FFmpeg provides a powerful command-line toolkit to manipulate the video file without re-encoding (when possible) or with custom encoding settings. S01E04 has dynamic audio ranges