[mythtv-users] Suggest transcode settings

[John Pilkington]

On 13/02/14 10:44, Henk D. Schoneveld wrote:
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> On 13 Feb 2014, at 10:24, Phil Wild <phil at holobyte.com.au> wrote:
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>> has to read:
>> ffmpeg -i your.mov -vf yadif -c:a libfaac -ab 128k -c:v libx264 -g 50 -crf 22 -s 896x720 your_small_crf22.mp4
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>> Thanks =)
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>> I'll give this a go as a starting point tonight. My preference is to remove the interlacing. Interlaced video is fine on the TV but we also tend to use Plex to output to iPads/Android.
> If your distributions ffmpeg doesn’t use libfaac, it could be libvo_aacenc or some other aac encoder. Replacing -c:a libfaac with -c:a copy will keep the original sound, or -an disables the sound which for video-quality testing purposes could be enough to start with.
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>> Phil

Looks good, thanks, Henk.  And this, while obvious, might save a little 
googling:

https://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/x264EncodingGuide

John P