On 21 Mar 2016, at 18:57, jd1008 <jd1...@gmail.com> wrote:

> 
> 
> On 03/21/2016 09:51 AM, Moritz Barsnick wrote:
>> On Sun, Mar 20, 2016 at 11:36:17 -0600, jd1008 wrote:
>> 
>>> highest quality HD 1920x1080
>> You should know better by now to be more specific. E.g. do you have any
>> restriction when it comes to codec? Time to convert? File size?
>> 
>> The best quality with the smallest effort can indeed be achieved if you
>> let the player/client rescale. I know that some rescalers are bad (I
>> own at least one :-P), so you may have a reason.
>> 
>> Rescaling on source level implies reencoding. "Highest quality" can
>> strictly only be achieved if you re-encode to a lossless codec (or
>> codec variant), at the cost of large files/large bandwidth. does your
>> client even understand lossless codecs? Are you okay with large
>> bandwidth????
>> 
>> Even if "lossy" is okay, to achieve similar quality (despite no
>> information being added when upscaling), you need more bandwidth than
>> the original. You will have to experiment what fits your need.
>> 
>> All those caveats aside:
>> $ ffmpeg -i EarthView.mp4 -vf scale=hd1080 -c:v libx264 -c:a copy 
>> EarthView.large.mp4
>> 
>> If the quality is not sufficient, add "-crf NN" as output (codec)
>> option, and choose a smaller number for NN than the default 23.
>> 
>> I could give better advice if I knew what you were aiming for...
>> 
>> Moritz
> Thank you Moritz.
> 
> Using the command you provided.
> So far, it has transcoded this much:
> frame=45418 fps=6.8 q=28.0 size=  640737kB time=00:31:34.44 
> bitrate=2770.7kbits/s
> 
> I tried to play the partialy transcoded file (not sure if that is the right 
> thing to do),
That’s not possible for mp4 files. Only when finished, or you have to use the 
mpeg2ts container format.
> and I got just a lot of changing colored tiny squares and numerous messages 
> of:
> 
> [dvvideo @ 0x7fdfee20ff20]AC EOB marker is absent pos=65
> [dvvideo @ 0x7fdfee20ff20]AC EOB marker is absent pos=64
> [dvvideo @ 0x7fdfee20ff20]AC EOB marker is absent pos=65
> [dvvideo @ 0x7fdfee20ff20]AC EOB marker is absent pos=64
> [dvvideo @ 0x7fdfee20ff20]AC EOB marker is absent pos=64
> [dvvideo @ 0x7fdfee20ff20]AC EOB marker is absent pos=64
> [dvvideo @ 0x7fdfee20ff20]AC EOB marker is absent pos=64
> [dvvideo @ 0x7fdfee20ff20]AC EOB marker is absent pos=64
> [dvvideo @ 0x7fdfee20ff20]AC EOB marker is absent pos=64
> [dvvideo @ 0x7fdfee20ff20]AC EOB marker is absent pos=64
> [dvvideo @ 0x7fdfee20ff20]AC EOB marker is absent pos=64
> [dvvideo @ 0x7fdfee20ff20]AC EOB marker is absent pos=64
> [dvvideo @ 0x7fdfee20ff20]AC EOB marker is absent pos=94
> [dvvideo @ 0x7fdfee20ff20]AC EOB marker is absent pos=64
> [dvvideo @ 0x7fdfee20ff20]AC EOB marker is absent pos=66
> [dvvideo @ 0x7fdfee20ff20]AC EOB marker is absent pos=68
> [dvvideo @ 0x7fdfee20ff20]AC EOB marker is absent pos=64
> [dvvideo @ 0x7fdfee20ff20]AC EOB marker is absent pos=81
> [dvvideo @ 0x7fdfee20ff20]AC EOB marker is absent pos=65
> [dvvideo @ 0x7fdfee20ff20]AC EOB marker is absent pos=65
> [dvvideo @ 0x7fdfee20ff20]AC EOB marker is absent pos=67
> [dvvideo @ 0x7fdfee20ff20]AC EOB marker is absent pos=66
> [dvvideo @ 0x7fdfee20ff20]AC EOB marker is absent pos=91
> [dvvideo @ 0x7fdfee20ff20]AC EOB marker is absent pos=65
> [dvvideo @ 0x7fdfee20ff20]AC EOB marker is absent pos=64
> [dvvideo @ 0x7fdfee20ff20]AC EOB marker is absent pos=64
> [dvvideo @ 0x7fdfee20ff20]AC EOB marker is absent pos=64
> [dvvideo @ 0x7fdfee20ff20]AC EOB marker is absent pos=74
> [dvvideo @ 0x7fdfee20ff20]AC EOB marker is absent pos=64
> [dvvideo @ 0x7fdfee20ff20]AC EOB marker is absent pos=101
> 
> PS: Using ffmpeg-2.6.8-1.fc22.x86_64
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