On Fri, 16 Nov 2018, 12:00 Ron Barnes <rbar...@njdevils.net wrote: > All, > > For some reason the below command is not working right. I am unable to > compress my movie by an significant amount. > The input movie (MYMOVIE.Mkv) is just over 55GB and the resulting output > is just over 53GB. > > I thought (and I am probably wrong) that by raising or lowering the -crf > value would increase or decrease the size of my output file. No matter > what value I use, be it 18 or 28, the output file size is always the same. > > Can anyone determine where I'm going south in order to decrease the > files's footprint (size) yet still preserve the movie quality
Yes,you are manually setting the bitrate with your -b:v 10M command. Remove that and try again. Best, Kieran _______________________________________________ ffmpeg-user mailing list ffmpeg-user@ffmpeg.org http://ffmpeg.org/mailman/listinfo/ffmpeg-user To unsubscribe, visit link above, or email ffmpeg-user-requ...@ffmpeg.org with subject "unsubscribe".
