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• How to optimize ffmpeg w/ x264 for multiple bitrate output files

  10 octobre 2013, par Jonesy

  The goal is to create multiple output files that differ only in bitrate from a single source file. The solutions for this that were documented worked, but had inefficiencies. The solution that I discovered to be most efficient was not documented anywhere that I could see. I am posting it here for review and asking if others know of additional optimizations that can be made.

  Source file       MPEG-2 Video (Letterboxed) 1920x1080 @>10Mbps
  
                    MPEG-1 Audio @ 384Kbps
  
  Destiation files  H264 Video 720x400 @ multiple bitrates
  
                    AAC Audio @ 128Kbps
  
  Machine           Multi-core Processor

  The video quality at each bitrate is important so we are running in 2-Pass mode with the 'medium' preset

  VIDEO_OPTIONS_P2 = -vcodec libx264 -preset medium -profile:v main -g 72 -keyint_min 24 -vf scale=720:-1,crop=720:400

  The first approach was to encode them all in parallel processes

  ffmpeg -y -i $INPUT_FILE $AUDIO_OPTIONS_P2 $VIDEO_OPTIONS_P2 -b:v 250k -threads auto -f mp4 out-250.mp4 &
  ffmpeg -y -i $INPUT_FILE $AUDIO_OPTIONS_P2 $VIDEO_OPTIONS_P2 -b:v 500k -threads auto -f mp4 out-500.mp4 &
  ffmpeg -y -i $INPUT_FILE $AUDIO_OPTIONS_P2 $VIDEO_OPTIONS_P2 -b:v 700k -threads auto -f mp4 out-700.mp4 &
  

  The obvious inefficiencies are that the source file is read, decoded, scaled, and cropped identically for each process. How can we do this once and then feed the encoders with the result ?

  The hope was that generating all the encodes in a single ffmpeg command would optimize-out the duplicate steps.

  ffmpeg -y -i $INPUT_FILE \
  
  $AUDIO_OPTIONS_P2 $VIDEO_OPTIONS_P2 -b:v 250k -threads auto -f mp4 out-250.mp4 \
  
  $AUDIO_OPTIONS_P2 $VIDEO_OPTIONS_P2 -b:v 500k -threads auto -f mp4 out-500.mp4 \
  
  $AUDIO_OPTIONS_P2 $VIDEO_OPTIONS_P2 -b:v 700k -threads auto -f mp4 out-700.mp4

  However, the encoding time was nearly identical to the previous multi-process approach. This leads me to believe that all the steps are again being performed in duplicate.

  To force ffmpeg to read, decode, and scale only once, I put those steps in one ffmpeg process and piped the result into another ffmpeg process that performed the encoding. This improved the overall processing time by 15%-20%.

  INPUT_STREAM="ffmpeg -i $INPUT_FILE -vf scale=720:-1,crop=720:400 -threads auto -f yuv4mpegpipe -"
  
  
  
  $INPUT_STREAM | ffmpeg -y -f yuv4mpegpipe -i - \
  
  $AUDIO_OPTIONS_P2 $VIDEO_OPTIONS_P2 -b:v 250k -threads auto out-250.mp4 \
  
  $AUDIO_OPTIONS_P2 $VIDEO_OPTIONS_P2 -b:v 500k -threads auto out-500.mp4 \
  
  $AUDIO_OPTIONS_P2 $VIDEO_OPTIONS_P2 -b:v 700k -threads auto out-700.mp4

  Does anyone see potential problems with doing it this way, or know of a better method ?

• How to optimize ffmpeg w/ x264 for multiple bitrate output files

  10 octobre 2013, par Jonesy

  The goal is to create multiple output files that differ only in bitrate from a single source file. The solutions for this that were documented worked, but had inefficiencies. The solution that I discovered to be most efficient was not documented anywhere that I could see. I am posting it here for review and asking if others know of additional optimizations that can be made.

  Source file       MPEG-2 Video (Letterboxed) 1920x1080 @>10Mbps
  
                    MPEG-1 Audio @ 384Kbps
  
  Destiation files  H264 Video 720x400 @ multiple bitrates
  
                    AAC Audio @ 128Kbps
  
  Machine           Multi-core Processor

  The video quality at each bitrate is important so we are running in 2-Pass mode with the 'medium' preset

  VIDEO_OPTIONS_P2 = -vcodec libx264 -preset medium -profile:v main -g 72 -keyint_min 24 -vf scale=720:-1,crop=720:400

  The first approach was to encode them all in parallel processes

  ffmpeg -y -i $INPUT_FILE $AUDIO_OPTIONS_P2 $VIDEO_OPTIONS_P2 -b:v 250k -threads auto -f mp4 out-250.mp4 &
  ffmpeg -y -i $INPUT_FILE $AUDIO_OPTIONS_P2 $VIDEO_OPTIONS_P2 -b:v 500k -threads auto -f mp4 out-500.mp4 &
  ffmpeg -y -i $INPUT_FILE $AUDIO_OPTIONS_P2 $VIDEO_OPTIONS_P2 -b:v 700k -threads auto -f mp4 out-700.mp4 &
  

  The obvious inefficiencies are that the source file is read, decoded, scaled, and cropped identically for each process. How can we do this once and then feed the encoders with the result ?

  The hope was that generating all the encodes in a single ffmpeg command would optimize-out the duplicate steps.

  ffmpeg -y -i $INPUT_FILE \
  
  $AUDIO_OPTIONS_P2 $VIDEO_OPTIONS_P2 -b:v 250k -threads auto -f mp4 out-250.mp4 \
  
  $AUDIO_OPTIONS_P2 $VIDEO_OPTIONS_P2 -b:v 500k -threads auto -f mp4 out-500.mp4 \
  
  $AUDIO_OPTIONS_P2 $VIDEO_OPTIONS_P2 -b:v 700k -threads auto -f mp4 out-700.mp4

  However, the encoding time was nearly identical to the previous multi-process approach. This leads me to believe that all the steps are again being performed in duplicate.

  To force ffmpeg to read, decode, and scale only once, I put those steps in one ffmpeg process and piped the result into another ffmpeg process that performed the encoding. This improved the overall processing time by 15%-20%.

  INPUT_STREAM="ffmpeg -i $INPUT_FILE -vf scale=720:-1,crop=720:400 -threads auto -f yuv4mpegpipe -"
  
  
  
  $INPUT_STREAM | ffmpeg -y -f yuv4mpegpipe -i - \
  
  $AUDIO_OPTIONS_P2 $VIDEO_OPTIONS_P2 -b:v 250k -threads auto out-250.mp4 \
  
  $AUDIO_OPTIONS_P2 $VIDEO_OPTIONS_P2 -b:v 500k -threads auto out-500.mp4 \
  
  $AUDIO_OPTIONS_P2 $VIDEO_OPTIONS_P2 -b:v 700k -threads auto out-700.mp4

  Does anyone see potential problems with doing it this way, or know of a better method ?

• FFmpeg converted mp4 file fails to load in Quicktime

  21 décembre 2015, par wonea

  I’ve been using FFmpeg to convert a movie I need to play in MP4, however in Quicktime the following error is presented ;

  

  (Error -2041 : an invalid sample description was found in the movie (output.mp4)).

  I used the following FFmpeg command parameters to convert the file ;

  C :\Temp\EOBTemp>ffmpeg -i input.mp4 -y
  -acodec libmp3lame -ab 96k -vcodec libx264 -vpre lossless_slow -crf 22
  -threads 0 output.mp4

  Now this file plays absolutely fine, in Windows Media Player, and VideoLAN (FFmpeg based, so no surprise here. I using the latest build from HawkEye’s FFmpeg Windows Builds
  (FFmpeg git-a304071 32-bit Static (Latest)).

  I really hope this isn’t a AAC problem, as I’ve been trying to get FFmpeg to use the libfaac.dll library (in the same folder as the FFmpeg.exe) with the command ;

  -acodec libfaac

  Help ! I’m at a loss !