21 Jul
2017
21 Jul
'17
1:36 a.m.
Hey hey,
I've found the following command to generate a video from single frame images
ffmpeg -r 25 -start_number 1 -i image%03d.jpg -c:v libx264 -r 25 -pix_fmt
yuv420p out.mp4
My question is: the resultant videos seem quite small. Seeing that I have no
knowledge of all the video quality parameters, could someone suggest better
options?
The input files are 1280x720 JPGs with possibly 16bits for color (standard
POV-Ray output).
Final destination is youtube. Any suggestions are very welcome.
Best wishes and thanks,
Jeanette
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21 Jul
21 Jul
3:06 a.m.
On Thu, July 20, 2017 6:36 pm, Jeanette C. wrote:
My question is: the resultant videos seem quite small.
Can you clarify with numbers? Small in resolution or just small in size?
How many pictures are you using for what length of video? Video
compression algorithms work by having a frame of full graphic information,
then transmitting information about how much changed from frame to frame.
If you do not have very many images used for the video, then there will be
many frames in a row which are essentially (or completely) unchanged, so
the resultant video stream will be the equivalent of a picture followed by
a lot of frames with just enough data to indicate the equivalent to "same
as before."
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Chris Caudle
9:12 a.m.
Jul 21 2017, Chris Caudle has written:
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Hi Chris,
Can you clarify with numbers? Small in resolution or
just small in size?
Small in size. At te moment its images only (no audio). For 125
images,
making 125 frames, played at an fps of 25 per second (i.e. 5 seconds)
the video is 420K. OK, if ffmpeg does a good encoding job, in the way
you describe, the quality could be just as good as the images allow.
...
Best wishes and thanks,
Jeanette
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* SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/jeanette_c
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4:01 p.m.
Hi Jeanette,
On 21/07/2017 09:12, Jeanette C. wrote:
Jul 21 2017, Chris Caudle has written:
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Hi Chris,
Here there is some specific information about H264 enoding:
https://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/Encode/H.264#LosslessH.264
Essentially you can try with something like -crf 18 or even lower... As
explained the scale is from 0 (best) to 51 (worst)
Hope this helps.
Lorenzo.
Can you clarify with numbers? Small in
resolution or just small in size?
Small in size. At te moment its images only (no
audio). For 125 images,
making 125 frames, played at an fps of 25 per second (i.e. 5 seconds)
the video is 420K. OK, if ffmpeg does a good encoding job, in the way
you describe, the quality could be just as good as the images allow.
...
Jeanette
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* SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/jeanette_c
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4:39 p.m.
Jul 21 2017, Lorenzo Sutton has written:
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Here there is some specific information about H264
enoding:
https://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/Encode/H.264#LosslessH.264
...
Thanks Lorenzo, that did help me understand a little more about the
practicalities. The -crf flag appears to be the most useful. I'm trying
that.
Best wishes,
Jeanette
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