Questions tagged [h.264]
Also known as MPEG-4/AVC, an advanced video encoding standard, widely used in Blu-ray and streaming video.
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ffmpeg libx264 is noisy
After converting video with ffmpeg to H264, my video is noisy.
ffmpeg -i http://192.168.1.10:5530/bysid/106 -map 0:v:0 -map 0:a:0 -c:v libx264 -c:a mp2 out.mkv
Normal:
Noisy subtitle:
Same result ...
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Are HEVC and H265 same? in ffmpeg they give different results why?
recently i re encoded a H264 video to HEVC using ffmpeg and intel hevc_qsv hardware acceleration and libx265. hevc_qsv results in higher sized video and libx265 results in 50% lower sized video.
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Remote Desktop AVC 444 Hardware Encoding with Super Ultrawide Display
As my daily driver workstation, I RDP from a Windows 10 desktop to a Windows 10 VM with a GTX 1080 passed through. I just upgraded my monitor from 3440x1440 to 5120x1440. I noticed recently that the ...
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How to set the GOP(group of picture) of RDP on Windows Desktop?
I found that the GOP length of RDP is 2592000 when I use gfx AVC444. I want to decrease this value.
How can I decrease this value on windows?
Here is h264 parse data.
0xcb 0xb2 0x13 0x92 0x98 0x73 ...
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Transcode h265 to h264 “on the fly” for software NVR
I wonder if anyone has experience with transcoding h265+ to h264 in real-time?
I'm having an IP-cam that only outputs h265 that I would like to use for surveillance purposes. The camera is the latest-...
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ffmpeg not making the correct video size
I've been trying to join a bunch of .png files into an mp4. The .png files are all 1920x1080 but my output file is always smaller, i.e. 1920x1072. What silly mistake have I made here?
ffmpeg -...
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ffmpeg fail decoding action cam h264 files (Campark x30) - every resolution and framerate
Playing back recorded files in VLC under Windows is perfect, same file with VLC in Linux (Ubuntu 20.04 64-bit) is unusable.
Checking with ffplay -i ANMR0016.mp4 got this warnings:
libavutil 56. ...
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ffmpeg creates large compressed files for tiny videos?
When compressing very small videos, there seems to be a large overhead in the video container itself.
Here are some examples using a single-frame 16x16-pixel all-black image:
ffmpeg -f lavfi -i color=...
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ffmpeg lags when streaming video+audio from RPi Zero W with Logitech C920
I've been trying to setup a baby monitor with a Raspberry Pi Zero and a Logitech C920 webcam. It does work with VLC (cvlc) but it lags too much and gets worse over time.
So I am playing around with ...
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Set keyframe interval in ffmpeg when using nvenc
OBS uses nvenc when encoding live streams. In the guide "NVIDIA NVENC OBS Guide", an advanced option is listed as:
Keyframe Interval: Set to 2. Streaming platforms may limit what you can ...
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How to get no-reference video quality metrics (or numerical quality score) for 1080p, h264 video?
For the life of me, I can't find a suitable way to do this.
I have 3 videos (all h264), which supposedly came encoded from the same source (they have the same content / offset by up to a second). I do ...
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Maximum possible bitrate for HEVC videos with hardware encoding in Premiere Pro
I am trying to export a series of images as a 4K HEVC video (it is a long series) and I am using Premier Pro 2020 to do it. I found I can switch to High tier and this allows me to go over 25Mbit ...
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How to convert h.264 (MP4) to Theora (FFmpeg)
How to convert h.264 to Theora using FFmpeg.
I generally use all the -qscale commands etc, but the quality is hopeless anyway. The point is that the movie freezes after a few seconds and only ...
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ffmpeg fix timestamp issues and video stutter
I uploaded snippets from an 1080p h264 live stream to Youtube and noticed video stuttering on the uploaded video. I remembered that Youtube is likely using ffmpeg to transcode videos.
So playing ...
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Compressing an MTS file to MP4 gives error in QuickTime
I have a long video file that I want to trim, resize, and compress with H264:
ffmpeg -y -ss 1.2 -to 2:03.800 -i long.MTS -vcodec libx264 -vf scale=320:-1 -vb 500k short.mp4
The file plays in VLC and ...
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OpenH264 isn't downloading for Firefox for WebRTC
Environment:
Windows 10 IoT Enterprise 2019 LTSC - win64
Firefox ESR 78.3.1
The plugin OpenH264 isn't downloading properly, it is needed for Webex teams SDK to work. We have tried all the options ...
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What is the different of h264 and libx264
I notice there is argument available for
--enable-encoder=h264,libx264 suppose I am converting the video looselessly
Which one default ffmpeg will use? h264 or libx264?
And how about the quality ...
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ffmpeg h.264 options to pipe into VLC for MJPEG streaming
I am trying to get VLC to recognize ffmpeg libx264 h.264 output from a stdin pipe.
I have a source of raw RGB24 video (currently a file, but eventually realtime from an app) that I wish to h.264 ...
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Measure / Remove H.264 Video Delay
I have an IP camera that sends an H.264 video stream that is supposed to be mixed / muxed with a separate audio stream.
On direct mixing
ffmpeg -i <video> -i <audio> -map 0:v -map 1:a <...
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Can vlc on MacOs read a h264 file from stdin?
MacOS, trying to get vlc to read from stdin. It’s an h264 file which I believe is streamable. ( I have streamed it to another program. )
"vlc file.h264" works.
"cat file.h264 | vlc -“ ...
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ffmpeg - losslessly compress upscaled video
I cannot seem to find a good answer to this. I have a video file, h264, 1280x720, 251.2 MB.
However the video is upscaled, the actual quality is 1024x576. And not just the numbers are different, there ...
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Is it possible to cut an h.264 stream anywhere, without re-encoding?
Note: I'd originally erroneously referred to an h.264 stream by the more common parlance of being an MP4 file, sorry
I'm aware of the usual need to start splitting an h.264 on a keyframe, so that the ...
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muxing primary h264 into mkv or mp4
this is a long time standing problem:
primary 264 streams don't have time stamps, so one gets (whatever you do) in the end an endless repeating error chain like
[mp4 @ 00000204c63e2f00] Timestamps are ...
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command line convert video replicating ffprobe output
How may I compress in.mkv as close as possible to sample_out.mp4 on Linux w/ ffmpeg or other CLI utility?
ffmpeg -i in.mkv ? ? ? out.mp4
ffprobe in.mkv
ffprobe version n4.2.3 Copyright (c) 2007-2020 ...
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ffmpeg: How do I re-encode a video to H.264 video and AAC audio?
I'm trying to re-encode a video produced with "TechSmith Screen Capture Codec" in WinUAE to use H.264 video and AAC audio, with the latest "ffmpeg" (20200510-fc99a24) 64-bit, but when I use the ...
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Why does QuickTime not play a video with CRF of 0, but is happy with 10?
I'm experimenting with video compression using ffmpeg (version 4.2.2), and used this command:
ffmpeg -i old.mp4 -c:v libx264 -crf 0 -preset fast newCrf0.mp4
but the resulting video would not play on ...
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Transcoding 1080p h264 to h265 w/ FFmpeg - Unexpectedly Extreme Reduction In Size
I have a collection of h264 videos from a digital camera that I'm re-encoding to h265 (HEVC). The FFmpeg options I'm using are:
-c:v libx265 -preset medium -x265-params crf=20:keyint=30 -c:a copy -...
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ffmpeg encoding requested yuv420p but got yuvj420p
When I encode with ffmpeg on Ubuntu 18, the default encoder h264 (libx264) uses by default the pixel format yuvj420p.
But https://ffmpeg.org/doxygen/trunk/pixfmt_8h_source.html says that ...
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H.264 video support in Chromium, missing codec?
Been using Chromium for a while, but it occurred to me that most video content does not work. YouTube does, but Vimeo does not, and most video streaming sites as well as random webpages with embedded ...
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Cannot play video stream from FFMPEG to VLC
I'm trying to stream my local webcam using FFMPEG. For test purposes, I'm doing this locally and try to open the stream using VLC (3.0.8, Windows 10). This is how I stream from FFMPEG:
ffmpeg -f ...
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Windows 10 Remote Desktop With RemoteFX and Hardware h.264 Using Nvidia NVENC
I have Windows 10 Pro as a server and Windows 10 Pro as a client. Server has a GTX 1070 card with the latest driver and is fully NVENC capable of h.264 / AVC 444 hardware encoding. Steam streaming ...
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FFMPEG: Error splitting the input into NAL units / Timestamps are unset in a packet for stream 0 when changing from avi to mp4
I am trying to change the container of a video acquired from an NVR using ffmpeg, but the output video is not playable by VLC or QuickTime. The output video stays still. In detail, using the following ...
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ffmpeg reducing frame rate doesn't decrease file size
My goal is to reduce the overall file size of a video without quality loss. The source video is at 30fps with keyframes every 90 frames. For our purposes we only need the video to be at 3fps and ...
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How can I convert raw h264 file from IP camera to something playable on a PC?
My security camera (Victure PC730) stores short videos on the SD card if it detects any motion.
The files are named xx.h264.
No player (VLC, MPlayer, …) is able to play it.
It seems to be a some ...
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FFMpeg No such file or directory
I'm trying to convert a MP4 file to H264 using FFMPEG. Unfortunately, it get a file/directory each time "No such file or directory". I've followed the steps within this link https://video....
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Slideshow with ffmpeg results in stuttery, unseekable, incorrect length file
I'm using ffmpeg to show images for different durations in a video:
(command taken from example on this page)
ffmpeg -f concat -i input.txt -vsync vfr -pix_fmt yuv420p output.mp4
Here what input....
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Cannot remove audio from video in FFMPEG (-an or -map doesnt work)
the following dont work
ffmpeg -i <input> -an <output>.mp4
ffmpeg -i <input> -map 0:0 -v:c copy <output>
The output returns the converted video WITH the audio still included....
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How to extract original images from a lossless compressed video which is composed from a sequence of images?
I am trying to compress a sequence of images using h.264 with ffmpeg.
ffmpeg -f image2 -r 5 -i ori/binary%03d.jpg -vcodec libx264 -preset veryslow a.mp4
ffmpeg -i a.mp4 -q 2 rec/output_%03d.jpg
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5k player 4k movie H264 codec isn't using hardware acceleration on GTX970 GPU
The machine I am using: OS Windows 10, 6Gb Ram, NVidia 970GTX and AMD FX6300 CPU, the media player is the latest 5k player display is 4k TV and I am trying out 4k movies, but they lag really badly.
I ...
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Checking for GPU and H264 hardware decoding support
I want to run on a backend server a program that decodes video, applies filters on it using OpenGL and then encodes the video to a new file using h.264.
In order to verify that the process is as fast ...
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Using ffmpeg to add presentation timestamp
I'm trying to add presentation timestamp given a known frame rate. While this does work it does seem to be deprecated. I'm running the command:
ffmpeg -r 24 -i input.h264 -codec copy output.mp4
The ...
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How to extract an elementary video stream from Avigilon .ave container?
I would like to figure out how to extract a H.264 video stream from an Avigilon .ave custom container. Unlike with here where they are using ffmpeg to extract the elementary video stream, when I try ...
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Are JPEG snapshots of H.264 / MP4 videos lossless?
I have noticed that some apps (namely Firefox and, in default configuration, mpv) save snapshots of MP4 videos in JPEG format. Is this because individual frames can be losslessly extracted as JPEGs or ...
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Problems capturing desktop video encoded by h264 with ffmpeg
I cannot get ffmpeg to capture a video of X11 desktop, encoded by h264.
I can capture the desktop without specifying an encoder, with ffmpeg -y -f x11grab -s wuxga -r 5 -i :1 output.avi -loglevel ...
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ffmpeg save images with frame type
I'm trying to get the frames of a video file as images, together with tags that if the frame is a I, P or B frame.
I know that ffmpeg can output only a specific type of frame using select
For I-...
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Inserting SPS NAL Units into h.264 stream
I'm currently using FFmpeg to convert a Youtube livestream HLS into a H.264 UDP stream.
For it to work correctly with the device I'm using, the stream needs to have SPS NAL units inserted every so ...
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Nvidia hardware H.264 decoder (nvdec with Gstreamer) is crashing
I have created an Azure virtual machine Nc6s_v3 which provide Nvidia V100 GPU card. I have set up the drivers following the instructions here https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-machines/...
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ffmpeg not working using h264_vaapi
I'm trying to transcode a video using ffmpeg with hardware acceleration using the following command:
sudo ffmpeg -hwaccel vaapi -hwaccel_output_format vaapi \
-vaapi_device /dev/dri/renderD128 -i ...
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Debugging H264 video issues in Firefox
I have a video stream encoded in H264 video format. The video stream is sent using RTP to the Kurento relay server. From Kurento it is sent to the browser using WebRTC. I adjusted the Kurento ...
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Generate mpeg 4 file with specific format with h.264 codec
I need a specific format in my .mp4 video file:
1. Only I and P frames
2. Each P frame based on only the previous (temporally) I frame
3. An I frame every second or so
Is it possible to generate ...
