Re: [Libav-user] ffmpeg ; splitting an input movie into multiple tracks in a single output movie, possible?

2012-12-08 Thread René J.V. Bertin
On Dec 08, 2012, at 19:55, Carl Eugen Hoyos wrote: > Carl Eugen Hoyos writes: > >>> You may not agree, but it my experience that material >>> that has already been compressed with a lossy codec is >>> often hard to compress further >> >> This is true for material that has been compressed with

Re: [Libav-user] ffmpeg ; splitting an input movie into multiple tracks in a single output movie, possible?

2012-12-08 Thread Carl Eugen Hoyos
Carl Eugen Hoyos writes: > > You may not agree, but it my experience that material > > that has already been compressed with a lossy codec is > > often hard to compress further > > This is true for material that has been compressed with > maximum quantiser but this does not seem like a typical

Re: [Libav-user] ffmpeg ; splitting an input movie into multiple tracks in a single output movie, possible?

2012-12-08 Thread Carl Eugen Hoyos
René J.V. Bertin writes: > On Dec 08, 2012, at 00:06, Carl Eugen Hoyos wrote: > > My guess now is that you argue that for two given codecs (no > > matter if mjpeg, mpeg-4 asp, mpeg2video, flv1 or snow), the > > following command line always produces files of nearly identical > > size: > > $ ff

Re: [Libav-user] ffmpeg ; splitting an input movie into multiple tracks in a single output movie, possible?

2012-12-07 Thread René J.V. Bertin
On Dec 08, 2012, at 00:06, Carl Eugen Hoyos wrote: > My guess now is that you argue that for two given codecs (no > matter if mjpeg, mpeg-4 asp, mpeg2video, flv1 or snow), the > following command line always produces files of nearly identical > size: > $ ffmpeg -i input -vcodec xxx out.avi No,

Re: [Libav-user] ffmpeg ; splitting an input movie into multiple tracks in a single output movie, possible?

2012-12-07 Thread Carl Eugen Hoyos
René J.V. Bertin writes: > >> What I mean is the size of the files I get on my sample videos. > >> Guess I should have made that clearer. And of course I never > >> meant to say it depends on the framerate only, evidently it > >> depends on how much the images vary between frames. ("Guess" is

Re: [Libav-user] ffmpeg ; splitting an input movie into multiple tracks in a single output movie, possible?

2012-12-07 Thread René J.V. Bertin
Top-hi :P On Dec 07, 2012, at 18:42, Carl Eugen Hoyos wrote: >> What I mean is the size of the files I get on my sample videos. Guess I >> should have made that clearer. And of course I never meant to say it depends >> on the framerate only, evidently it depends on how much the images vary >> b

Re: [Libav-user] ffmpeg ; splitting an input movie into multiple tracks in a single output movie, possible?

2012-12-07 Thread Carl Eugen Hoyos
René J.V. Bertin writes: > NB: at 12Hz there isn't much gain of mpeg4 encoding over > mjpeg encoding Depending on what you mean with "gain", this is not correct. (Your sentence is equivalent to "intra-only codecs have no real disadvantage over using P and B-frames for sufficiently small fps."

Re: [Libav-user] ffmpeg ; splitting an input movie into multiple tracks in a single output movie, possible?

2012-12-07 Thread Carl Eugen Hoyos
René J.V. Bertin writes: > Are we really speaking about the same thing, generating > multiple tracks in a QuickTime movie, and not a > track with 4 overlays or a multi-channel (audio) track? > May I ask what the name of the filter is that merges > the crop filter outputs in 4 tracks in a single

Re: [Libav-user] ffmpeg ; splitting an input movie into multiple tracks in a single output movie, possible?

2012-12-07 Thread René J.V. Bertin
Are we really speaking about the same thing, generating multiple tracks in a QuickTime movie, and not a track with 4 overlays or a multi-channel (audio) track? May I ask what the name of the filter is that merges the crop filter outputs in 4 tracks in a single output (not overlay, not amerge ...

Re: [Libav-user] ffmpeg ; splitting an input movie into multiple tracks in a single output movie, possible?

2012-12-07 Thread Carl Eugen Hoyos
René J.V. Bertin writes: > I discovered yesterday that it's possible to split an input > movie (a raw m4v stream) into 4 separate output movies (.mov) > each containing a quarter of the original image (obtained with > -vf crop=w/2:h/2:x:y), using a single invocation of ffmpeg. > Is it possible

[Libav-user] ffmpeg ; splitting an input movie into multiple tracks in a single output movie, possible?

2012-12-07 Thread René J.V. Bertin
I discovered yesterday that it's possible to split an input movie (a raw m4v stream) into 4 separate output movies (.mov) each containing a quarter of the original image (obtained with -vf crop=w/2:h/2:x:y), using a single invocation of ffmpeg. Is it possible to generate a single output movie wi