[Libav-user] How to set bit_rate for MPEG4/2

[Harald Schlangmann]

Hi,

I still do not get proper compression according to the bit rate set. I applied several other changes like playing with the time_base, making sure pts for frames / packets written are “well formed” (i.e. time_base 25000 and frame pts = 0, 1000, 2000, 3000, etc) and other things but have been without luck. 

To summarize, here are the generation / conversion pattern for a FullHD video:

	1) set bit rate to something invalid (!=0): too strong compression, effective bitrate 3412 kb/s
	2) set bit rate to what I actually want (7257 kb/s): huge result, effective bitrate 47628 kb/s 
	3) set bit rate to what I actually want plus rc_min_rate and rc_max_rate to same value (7257 kb/s): result size / bitrate o.k. but processing is by a factor of 5 slower than usual…

And here is the reason I mail again… I had a look into the result (ffprobe -show_frames) from 2) and found no B frames are generated. Instead I see one ‘I’ frame, 11 ‘P’ frames, and repeating this pattern. c->gop_size is set to 12, anything else I need to set to get B frames (which should reduce the size a lot)? What possible reasons there are the MPEG4/2 encoder does not generate B frames?

Greetings Harald

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Harald Schlangmann
Antwerpener Str. 52, 50672 Köln, Germany
+49 151 2265 4439
Harry at gps-laptimer.de
www.gps-laptimer.de

On 20.04.2014, at 17:25, Carl Eugen Hoyos <cehoyos at ag.or.at> wrote:

> Harald Schlangmann <harry at ...> writes:
> 
>> Looks I’m doing something fundamentally wrong here.
> 
> Did you test with ffmpeg (the application)?
> I am not convinced that single pass encoding can 
> generally guarantee a target bitrate.
> 
>> Any hint on how to influence result file size for mpeg4?
> 
>> The only other fields I initialize for AVCodecContext 
>> are width, height, time_base, pix_fmt,  
> 
> At least constant quantiser vs. bitrate can (and must) 
> be set.
> 
> Carl Eugen
> 
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