[mythtv-users] ffmpeg quality for Flash Files

[Trey Thompson]

On 5/14/07, Asher <freedenizen at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 5/13/07, Trey Thompson <treythompson at gmail.com> wrote:
> > This is what I use to create my flash files for streaming to the Net...
> > ffmpeg -y -i $directory/$file -r 20 -s 360x240 -deinterlace -ar 22050
> > $directory/$file.flv
> >
> > They are pretty good quality, but I'm wondering what I could do to make
> it a
> > "little" better.  It's kind of blocky, and motion is pretty bad.
> >
> > Any ideas on some changes I could try?
>
> The SVN version of mythweb supports on the fly creation of flv files
> for streaming and includes a nice GPL'd flashplayer.  The ffmpeg
> command it uses is:
> ffmpeg -y -i $filename -s 320x240 -r 24 -f flv -ar 11025 -ab 64k -b 256k
>
> Seems pretty good to me, in the end it kinda depends on your upstream
> bandwidth from your server, if you had a fat pipe you could adjust the
> bitrate up and get better quality
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Interesting!  Do you know which version?  I just updated a couple of weeks
ago to:
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