How to make high quality MPEG4 video

Anish Mistry mistry.7 at osu.edu
Tue Sep 2 09:02:25 PDT 2003


On Tuesday 02 September 2003 11:25 am, Sugiura Shiro wrote:
> In article <20030901201341.1e6ff86d.steve at sohara.org>
> steve at sohara.org writes:
> 
> >> 	With that 2.8GHZ P4 you should be able to go direct. I can quite
> >> easily record PAL 720x576 at 25fps in mpeg4 or mpeg1 on my AMD XP2000 in
> >> realtime with ffmpeg alone running like this:
> >> 
> >> ffmpeg -s 768x576 -tvstd pal -vcodec mpeg4 -b 2000 -acodec mp3 -ac 2 \
> >>   -ab 128 -f avi -t $DURATION -y $NAME.avi
> >> 
> >> 	It uses about 60% CPU on average, adding -hq pushes it to
> >> a bit over 70%. 
> 
> Thank you.
> I tried to direct encode a sportscast like following:
> 
> % ffmpeg -s 640x480 -tvstd ntsc -vcodec mpeg4 -b 2000 -acodec mp3 -ac 2 \
>   -ab 128 -f avi TV.avi
> 
> It uses about 30% CPU on average.
> And then, I play TV.avi using mplayer and xine. 
> But output avi files seems that some frame was droped during capture 
> and encode.
> 
> >> SS> Step2-2: mpeg4 encode by ffmpeg(strange out put)
> >> SS> % ffmpeg -i raw.avi -vcodec mpeg4 -r 29.97 -me full -re -b 2000
> >> SS> -acodec \
> >> SS>   copy -deinterlace tv.avi
> >> 
> >> 	Strange how ?
> 
> Audio stream is OK, but Video stream playbacks 2-3X speed, like Charles
>  Chaplin movies.
> 
> I tried to direct encode(mpeg1/mpeg4) and rawvideo recode , but in any case 
,
> my mpeg files seems that some frames was droped. I think, I  mistook 
> something, but I don't know what it is.
> 
> First step, I want to know how to setup to recode/encode full 
frames(29.97fps)
> movie.
> 
Try forcing a ntsc frame rate with -r 29.97
> thank you.
> 
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> Sugiura Shiro      E-mail : sugiura at kt.rim.or.jp
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