[FFmpeg-user] commonplace newbie question

[Dave Stevens]

On Wed, 6 Jul 2016 07:44:52 +0000 (UTC)
Carl Eugen Hoyos <cehoyos at ag.or.at> wrote:

> Dave Stevens <geek <at> uniserve.com> writes:
> 
> > ffmpeg -i ./onemountainhour%04d.jpg -vcodec mpeg4 -framerate 30
> > out.mp4  
> 
> You are neither specifying a bitrate nor constant quality, 
> the default is 200k which is not possible for the given 
> resolution. You can speed up encoding by specifying a 
> constant quality with -qscale 10 (lower is better).

yes, adjusting qscale helped a lot, thanks very much.
> 
> x264 has options to allow faster encoding, filesize will  

snip!

I'm checking that now, thanks!

Dave


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