Re: [FFmpeg-user] Confusion about quality parameters

2019-06-26 Thread Ulf Zibis
Am 26.06.19 um 09:58 schrieb Moritz Barsnick: > This has nothing to do with the dev branch, only with your particular > build. It uses different codecs, and these behave totally differently - > both by nature, and by default settings. > The mpeg4 encoder encodes differently than the x264 encoder.

Re: [FFmpeg-user] Confusion about quality parameters

2019-06-26 Thread Moritz Barsnick
On Tue, Jun 25, 2019 at 20:01:49 +0200, Ulf Zibis wrote: > > Question 4.) So why is the default of the dev build set to such bad > quality and why are the q factors such incoherent? This has nothing to do with the dev branch, only with your particular build. It uses different codecs, and these beh

Re: [FFmpeg-user] Confusion about quality parameters

2019-06-25 Thread Carl Eugen Hoyos
Am Di., 25. Juni 2019 um 20:32 Uhr schrieb Ulf Zibis : > > Am 25.06.19 um 20:16 schrieb Carl Eugen Hoyos: > > Am Di., 25. Juni 2019 um 20:11 Uhr schrieb Ulf Zibis : > >> Am 25.06.19 um 15:04 schrieb Carl Eugen Hoyos: > >>> Am Di., 25. Juni 2019 um 14:15 Uhr schrieb Ulf Zibis : > >>> > my input

Re: [FFmpeg-user] Confusion about quality parameters

2019-06-25 Thread Ulf Zibis
Am 25.06.19 um 20:18 schrieb Carl Eugen Hoyos: > Am Di., 25. Juni 2019 um 20:07 Uhr schrieb Ulf Zibis : > >> Question 4.) So why is the default of the dev build set to such bad >> quality and why are the q factors such incoherent? > It is not "set to such bad quality" but your command line didn't

Re: [FFmpeg-user] Confusion about quality parameters

2019-06-25 Thread Ulf Zibis
Am 25.06.19 um 20:16 schrieb Carl Eugen Hoyos: > Am Di., 25. Juni 2019 um 20:11 Uhr schrieb Ulf Zibis : >> Am 25.06.19 um 15:04 schrieb Carl Eugen Hoyos: >>> Am Di., 25. Juni 2019 um 14:15 Uhr schrieb Ulf Zibis : >>> my input is a 1.5 minute mp4 video with 19.5 MB When I use (with b

Re: [FFmpeg-user] Confusion about quality parameters

2019-06-25 Thread Carl Eugen Hoyos
Am Di., 25. Juni 2019 um 20:07 Uhr schrieb Ulf Zibis : > Question 4.) So why is the default of the dev build set to such bad > quality and why are the q factors such incoherent? It is not "set to such bad quality" but your command line didn't make sense. Carl Eugen __

Re: [FFmpeg-user] Confusion about quality parameters

2019-06-25 Thread Carl Eugen Hoyos
Am Di., 25. Juni 2019 um 20:11 Uhr schrieb Ulf Zibis : > > Am 25.06.19 um 15:04 schrieb Carl Eugen Hoyos: > > Am Di., 25. Juni 2019 um 14:15 Uhr schrieb Ulf Zibis : > > > >> my input is a 1.5 minute mp4 video with 19.5 MB > >> > >> When I use (with build from dev): > >> ./ffmpeg in.mp4 -c:a cop

Re: [FFmpeg-user] Confusion about quality parameters

2019-06-25 Thread Ulf Zibis
Am 25.06.19 um 15:04 schrieb Carl Eugen Hoyos: > Am Di., 25. Juni 2019 um 14:15 Uhr schrieb Ulf Zibis : > >> my input is a 1.5 minute mp4 video with 19.5 MB >> >> When I use (with build from dev): >> ./ffmpeg in.mp4 -c:a copy out.mp4 > You do not specify an encoder here, mp4 defaults to x264.

Re: [FFmpeg-user] Confusion about quality parameters

2019-06-25 Thread Ulf Zibis
Am 25.06.19 um 15:23 schrieb Moritz Barsnick: > The reason for the size difference is pretty obvious, if you actually Not to me. With setting q the same value for both builds, i.e. 28.0, the size and the visual quality is *much different*, even from honoring the complete output and even libx264 vs

Re: [FFmpeg-user] Confusion about quality parameters

2019-06-25 Thread Gyan
On 25-06-2019 06:34 PM, Carl Eugen Hoyos wrote: qmax integer (encoding,video) Set max video quantizer scale (VBR). Must be included between -1 and 1024, default value is 31. This option only applies to (some) internal encoders, not x264. The libx264 wrapper does look at and conv

Re: [FFmpeg-user] Confusion about quality parameters

2019-06-25 Thread Moritz Barsnick
On Tue, Jun 25, 2019 at 14:48:58 +0200, Ulf Zibis wrote: > > my input is a 1.5 minute mp4 video with 19.5 MB [...] > >     ./ffmpeg in.mp4 -c:a copy out.mp4 > >     ffmpeg version N-93873-g6276b4db97 Copyright (c) 2000-2019 the [...] > > I see q=31.0. (the output file is only 5.9 MB) [...] > > When

Re: [FFmpeg-user] Confusion about quality parameters

2019-06-25 Thread Carl Eugen Hoyos
Am Di., 25. Juni 2019 um 14:15 Uhr schrieb Ulf Zibis : > my input is a 1.5 minute mp4 video with 19.5 MB > > When I use (with build from dev): > ./ffmpeg in.mp4 -c:a copy out.mp4 You do not specify an encoder here, mp4 defaults to x264. > ffmpeg version N-93873-g6276b4db97 Copyright (c)

Re: [FFmpeg-user] Confusion about quality parameters

2019-06-25 Thread Ulf Zibis
Am 25.06.19 um 14:15 schrieb Ulf Zibis: > Hi, > > my input is a 1.5 minute mp4 video with 19.5 MB > > When I use (with build from dev): >     ./ffmpeg in.mp4 -c:a copy out.mp4 >     ffmpeg version N-93873-g6276b4db97 Copyright (c) 2000-2019 the > FFmpeg developers >       built with gcc 7 (Ubuntu 7

[FFmpeg-user] Confusion about quality parameters

2019-06-25 Thread Ulf Zibis
Hi, my input is a 1.5 minute mp4 video with 19.5 MB When I use (with build from dev):     ./ffmpeg in.mp4 -c:a copy out.mp4     ffmpeg version N-93873-g6276b4db97 Copyright (c) 2000-2019 the FFmpeg developers       built with gcc 7 (Ubuntu 7.4.0-1ubuntu1~18.04) in the output lines e.g.    frame=