[FFmpeg-user] Little stutters after conversion

[Frank Steiner]

Hi,

I tried to convert a 1920x1080 video to 1280x720. The resulting file had
little stutters in scenes where the camera is moving slowly but constantly.
I finally ended up with the following command to get a quality as close
to the original as possible:

ffmpeg -i movie.mkv -vf scale=-1:720 -c:v mpeg2video -q:a 0 -q:v 0 -maxrate 38800k -preset veryslow -c:a copy -scodec copy test.mkv

The video streams look very similar. 

movie.mkv:
  Duration: 00:25:10.24, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 13949 kb/s
    Stream #0:0(eng): Video: mpeg2video (Main), yuv420p(tv), 1920x1080 [SAR 1:1 DAR 16:9], Closed Captions, max. 38800 kb/s, 29.97 fps, 29.97 tbr, 1k tbn, 59.94 tbc (default) (forced)

test.mkv:
  Duration: 00:25:10.24, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 8299 kb/s
    Stream #0:0(eng): Video: mpeg2video (Main), yuv420p(tv), 1280x720 [SAR 1:1 DAR 16:9], max. 38800 kb/s, 29.97 fps, 29.97 tbr, 1k tbn, 59.94 tbc (default) (forced)

Only the bitrate is different. When I play this test.mkv with mplayer or mpv,
the little stutters are still there, but they are not with movie.mkv.
And they are not there when I play test.mkv with xine.
I also tried with "-c:v libx264 -crf 10" instead of mpeg2video, same result.

Any idea what could cause these stutters?

cu,
Frank


P.S.: my ffmpeg version:

ffmpeg version 3.0.4 Copyright (c) 2000-2016 the FFmpeg developers
  built with gcc 4.8 (SUSE Linux)
  configuration: --prefix=/usr --libdir=/usr/lib64 --shlibdir=/usr/lib64 --incdir=/usr/include/ffmpeg --extra-cflags='-fmessage-length=0 -grecord-gcc-switches -fstack-protector -O2 -Wall -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -funwind-tables -fasynchronous-unwind-tables -g' --optflags='-fmessage-length=0 -grecord-gcc-switches -fstack-protector -O2 -Wall -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -funwind-tables -fasynchronous-unwind-tables -g' --disable-htmlpages --enable-pic --disable-stripping --enable-shared --disable-static --enable-runtime-cpudetect --enable-gpl --disable-openssl --enable-avresample --enable-libcdio --enable-gnutls --enable-ladspa --enable-libass --enable-libbluray --enable-libcelt --enable-libcdio --enable-libdc1394 --enable-libfreetype --enable-libgsm --enable-libopenjpeg --enable-libopus --enable-libpulse --enable-libschroedinger --enable-libspeex --enable-libtheora --enable-libvorbis --enable-libvpx --enable-libwebp --enable-pic --enable-pthreads --enable-vaapi --enable-vdpau --enable-libfdk
_aac --enable-nonfree --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libtwolame --enable-libx264 --enable-libx265 --enable-libxvid --enable-x11grab
  libavutil      55. 17.103 / 55. 17.103
  libavcodec     57. 24.102 / 57. 24.102
  libavformat    57. 25.100 / 57. 25.100
  libavdevice    57.  0.101 / 57.  0.101
  libavfilter     6. 31.100 /  6. 31.100
  libavresample   3.  0.  0 /  3.  0.  0
  libswscale      4.  0.100 /  4.  0.100
  libswresample   2.  0.101 /  2.  0.101
  libpostproc    54.  0.100 / 54.  0.100




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