Cecil Westerhof via ffmpeg-user <ffmpeg-user@ffmpeg.org> writes: > Nicolas George <geo...@nsup.org> writes: > >> Carl Eugen Hoyos (12021-04-05): >>> There is a fundamental misunderstanding: >>> You decide how much quality you want to preserve, x264 decides how >>> much bitrate is needed to reach that quality. >> >> You also decide how much computing power you want to spend on it, which >> Cecil neglected to do. More computing power usually means lower bitrate >> for same quality. The keyword is "preset". > > Yes, that was not smart. > > The funny thing about that is that years ago I have played with that. > My very strange finding was that I could best use veryfast. It was > faster and created smaller files. But that is many years ago, so maybe > that is not true anymore.
Until two years ago it was still the case: https://write.corbpie.com/ffmpeg-preset-comparison-x264-2019-encode-speed-and-file-size/ I ran it with veryfast. It took about half the time and kb/s was 2164 instead of 2444. Better, but still about 40% higher as I would expect. -- Cecil Westerhof Senior Software Engineer LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/cecilwesterhof _______________________________________________ ffmpeg-user mailing list ffmpeg-user@ffmpeg.org https://ffmpeg.org/mailman/listinfo/ffmpeg-user To unsubscribe, visit link above, or email ffmpeg-user-requ...@ffmpeg.org with subject "unsubscribe".