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MPEG2 is, by today's standards, horribly inefficient, so that is to be expected. Transcoding, in that case, will gain a lot more. But if your mp4 files still compress significantly with a standard lossless compression algorithm, something is wrong with your encoder settings. Even xz, which, even at the default Level 6 is often better than zstd at 19, will generally do less than 1%, typically 0.2%, even at level 9 (the highest).