Questions tagged [video-encoding]
Specific issues with encoding video to a certain format, also related to [video-conversion]
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FFMPEG: How to convert 24 bpp MP4 to 16 bpp AVI that has rgb565le format?
SUMMARY: I'm trying to figure out (get an example, I guess) how to use the scaler src_format/dst_format tags to convert to a specific 16 bpp RGB format for a target device.
I'm dealing with some ...
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Video and Audio Sychronization issue
I am saving frames to H264 format and I saved audio to aac format. Then I concatenate of these format to creating mp4 format using ffmpeg player in android but When I concatenate Audio and Video, ...
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How do I convert 10-bit H.265 videos to H.264 without quality loss?
My laptop can't handle 10bit H.265 / HEVC videos, so I'm looking to convert them to 10bit H.264. How do I do this using, say, ffmpeg, with the least quality loss? And how can I convert 10-bit H.265 to ...
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Why is VLC playing a WTV file at half the frame rate?
I have a .wtv file of a 1080i network television broadcast I recorded using Windows Media Center on Windows 7.
In Media Center and Windows Media Player, it appears to play back at a buttery smooth ...
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FFmpeg: Remove Unsupported Subtitle Streams (MKV)
I'm making a script which loops through a list of media files and then re-encodes them using FFmpeg. My issue is that I need to remove any subtitles that the MKV container doesn't support. This should ...
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libx265 & ffmpeg: the better compression, the larger files?
Trying to squeeze the last bit, I made the finding, that my files get larger then smaller. Unfortunately I must have misinterpreted some parameters.
Maybe you can help me.
The reference is -preset ...
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Cannot get lossless compression to work with ffmpeg with upscaling on windows 10
I am trying to convert a sequence of png images to a lossless video while upscaling (keeping the same aspect ratio). I have attached one png image
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However, every lossless option I use either is ...
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How can I batch convert videos into 4:3? [closed]
I've got about 112 videos, each ~240MB. All of them are in 16:9 and I'd like to change them to 4:3.
What's the most nonresource-intensive and convenient way I can accomplish this without losing any ...
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Video frame capture: I-frame vs P-frames
I'm trying to capture various frames within a x264-encoded video files into png files (in python), and then compare the quality of them:
cap = cv2.VideoCapture(filename);
//get frame_number for ...
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How to add additional key frames to video using ffmpeg?
I want to add key frames on the base of a specific interval (20 frames) to my video.
Therefore I used the following command in ffmpeg:
ffmpeg -i <input> -vcodec libx264 -x264-params keyint=20:...
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Ffmpeg Gaussian Filter (gblur) kernel size
I am applying a Gaussian filter to a video using ffmpeg's gblur-filter. The filter accepts the sigma option, but does not allow to choose the kernel size. To correctly report on my Gaussian blur usage,...
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Streaming low resolution game with nearest neighbour scaling and low bitrate
I want to stream an old game in resolution 320x200 to Twitch. The problem is, I can sacrifice only ~500 kbps bitrate for it, preferably even less.
The problem is, streaming in 320x200 resolution ...
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Getting more than two NVENC video streams
I'm attempting to record (to a file) three or more 1080p webcams on a single computer simultaneously.
I successfully used two instances of OBS studio to record two webcams. The third instance throws ...
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Get the list of I-Frames in a video in FFMPEG / Python
I'm trying to select say 10 frames from a given video, possibly with highest variety and scenes. I would like to experiment with various selection scenarios, but the good thing is that the notion of I-...
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ffmpeg: how to create an interlaced h.264 video?
I would like to convert a high quality non interlaced input video into a less quality but wider distributable H.264/MP4 format. The output should have some constraints - in particular: it should be ...
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RTP/UDP Video Stream Via Local File?
I'm stumped here...
We use a signage software package here at work that for some weirdo reason, requires EVERYTHING to be coded in XML in order for anything to work...
The problem is this:
We ...
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FFMPEG command error for scene detection: Output file is empty
I'm trying to detect scenes in a given video and after playing around with scenecut thresholds, store the first frame of each scene as an image.
I'm using the following command:
ffmpeg -i input.mp4 ...
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FFmpeg scene detection and scenecut
This is a follow-up question from my previous question posted HERE. So basically using FFmpeg, I'm trying to detect scenes after choosing a good scenecut threshold, and grab a single representative ...
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Use FFmpeg to split video into multiple scenes
I am trying to use FFmpeg for splitting a video into multiple supposedly single-scene sub-videos using the scenecut feature and threshold. I found the following command on SE:
ffmpeg -i myVideo.mp4 -...
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FFmpeg : using more than 15 audio streams
I encountered a problem with video encoding. Here it the command I use to create a video.
ffmpeg -framerate 30 -i /Users/Images/image_%03d.png -ss 0.0 -t 3.333 -i /Users/Sounds/Info_01.wav -ss 0.0 -...
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ffmpeg create gif for multiple videos in a folder
I have hundreds of videos in a folder /home/videos/ and I would like to create a gif for each video.
The gif should be comprised of 10 different screenshots across the videos length. So for example ...
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How to efficiently set the duration of the first frame of an mp4 movie?
I have a self-coded app that utilizes the Camera2Video sample Google published on GitHub. Unfortunately, there seems to be an issue from Android 6 on upwards that causes recorded videos to be broken. ...
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Set an excat GoP-length open and no-open in ffmpeg
ffmpeg -f rawvideo -vcodec rawvideo -s 1280x720 -r 50 -pix_fmt uyvy422
-i Test.yuv -c:v libx265 -x265-params keyint:150:open-gop -b:v 10M Test_open_150_10M.hevc
As you can see, I'm trying to ...
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VLC can but Instagram and “Gallery” cannot play my videos
I've been busy over the past few days trying to compile a timelapse from a string of images using FFMPEG. After initial issues, I've got it working and have a perfect MP4 that plays in VLC player. It ...
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Why do people still backup their movies as mkv today? [closed]
Why anyone would use the matroska container when mp4 is way more compatible and has at least all mkv features as a container?
Am I missing something ?
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extract all attachements (fonts) from mkv video and add them other without
how can I extract all attachments (fonts) from Mkv video and add them other without adding one by one and without knowing their name? (without programs just FFmpeg working from CLI - MKV MKVToolNix ...
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Add soft subtitles with formatting and position
I’ve been using ffmpeg to do everything so far with a video, stringing animation frames together, adding audio, overlaying images, and adding subtitles. So I expect that the answer to my question ...
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Why do MPG files take up so much space? Is it an outdated format?
I tried googling this but I didn't actually find any conclusive evidence to sustain this so I'm going to present my case.
A couple of years ago I took the time to convert all our family video tapes ...
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AV1 encoding with ffmpeg
Since the newest version (4.0), ffmpeg supports the AV1 codec. VLC should also be able to play AV1 videos.
Unfortunately I haven't found the syntax to encode existing videos to AV1. I use ffmpeg ...
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How to remux .dav files to mkv/mp4?
It's common for security video footage to be exported as .dav and this proprietary is useless for most people!
How can you remux it to mkv/mp4 without quality loss?
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Why ffmpeg increases file size?
I'm trying to encode the video in the same quality in the same format, but the output file is several times larger than the input file. Whyis it happens? I want to fix the encoding errors, but I can ...
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Add keyframe to middle of video without reencoding entire video
I need to add I-frames to the middle of mp4s at ad breaks so I can segment to HLS and have I-frames when the video cues back in. I know how to do this while reencoding the entire video and forcing key ...
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Merging a splitted .ts recorded by dvb reciever that uses fat32 file system without losing frames
My receiver uses fat32 file system which limits a single .ts file to 3.99 gb ~4gb which is equivalent to a certain duration depending on the recorded channel. If it's done recording the allowed 4 gb, ...
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FFMPEG Getting Error During Segmenting MP4 Video
I am getting below error while I am breaking an MP4 video into small segments, using below command.
ffmpeg -i F:\video_data_set\non-profit-in-funnel-scripts.mp4 -f segment -segment_time 5 -...
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Adobe Media Encoder lengthen video duration by showing blank frames
I'm encoding an .mp4 using Adobe Media Encoder. It's currently 20:15:28 long, and I would like to make it exactly 20:30:00 long by showing black frames at the end.
I've looked through all the ...
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Splitting, re-encoding and joining video files results in clicking audio
We want to encode large video files faster.
To make encoding faster we are using multiple encoding servers.
Below is our process of encoding flow
First we split the video into small segments using ...
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Why is ffmpeg changing framerate from 60 to 120?
I'm using ffmpeg from powershell as
ffmpeg.exe -i i.mp4 o.mp4 -crf 22 and the video frame rate is changed from 59.99 to 120 for some reason. Any ideas why this is happening and how to use the source ...
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Why Easy Video Maker won't create video in windows 10?
Easy Video Maker dashboard
Easy video maker says video created successfully, but when i open the output folder, the video file is blank. I'm using windows 10. I have no problem using this same ...
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Getting ffmpeg error “Error initializing complex filters”
I'm using ffmpeg in my java program.
Here is my command, it works fine on the terminal and Windows application, but when it runs on the Mac application, it keeps giving me this error Error ...
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OBS recording videos at 1000 FPS
I'm currently in the midst of digitising my VHS cassettes with OBS Studio. I've set the Video Capture Device to 25 FPS but it still records at 1000 FPS taking up horrendous amounts of disk space. I've ...
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Tool to fix video files where audio is playing at wrong rate (stretched audio)
I've looked through numerous similar questions about audio and video being out of sync, but this is different: I have a bunch of video files where the audio is playing at roughly half the rate it ...
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Time-based instead of frame-based zones (with different CRF) for ffmpeg+x264/x265 encoding?
x264/5 have a zones parameter to support different encode settings for part of a video, but it only accepts frame numbers, not timestamps.
This is a minor inconvenience with constant-frame-rate video,...
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ffmpeg how to change video framerate without changing video duration?
I'm trying to encode a video with a diffrent constant framerate using ffmpeg. The duration of the output file is different than the original by a 0.02 seconds which is about a frame.
How do I change ...
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VP8 single pass conversion with good quality in ffmpeg
I am working at a raw to timelapse program, and I am using ffmpeg to generate a video out of a sequence of JPGs that my program outputs.
The user can select from different codecs, such as libx264, ...
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ffmpeg - mapping multiple audios to one channel
I want to output a video file with multiple sounds, but put them in one channel.
I've tried couple ways to do it, but I'm always given a video with multiple sound streams.
Like this
My command is
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Reject DTS-HD MA
I have couple of video files containing both regular DTS as well as DTS-HD MA audio tracks. I want to get rid of the DTS-HD MA audio streams during transcoding, but have not figured out how to do so.
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Why is my ffmpeg output smaller than my input after only editing metadata?
I am using ffmpeg to edit mp4 creation_time metadata, using the command:
ffmpeg -i input.mp4 -metadata creation_time="YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS" -codec copy output.mp4
Creation date is successfully ...
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Uploading FFmpeg Video to Twitter, First Few Seconds Quality is Terrible
I'm using FFmpeg to create a video from an audio track and a sequence of jpeg images (it's a 5fps animation. I've tried variations of CRF 0, 17 and 23 and I've tried 2 pass encoding with a bit rate of ...
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Does an FFmpeg preset have any use if I'm using -crf 0?
I'm encoding a video for upload to YouTube and Facebook using libx264 and setting -crf 0.
Is there any benefit to using a preset as well? My understanding is that the preset affects encoding speed/...
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FFMPEG split a video into multiple scenes/shot videos
I want to use FFMPEG (or ffprobe) to split a video into multiple shot videos/scenes (scene1.mp4 to sceneX.mp4, each a separate video). So whenever there is a scene change, it should cut it. What is ...
