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I'm trying encode a video stream using HEVC with ffmpeg and create a MPEG-TS file. I need to be able to insert IDR frames to certain locations in the stream. I came across the flag -force_key_frames under ffmpeg documentation, but it doesn't seem to work for me.
Here is the command I tried:
ffmpeg -s:v 1280x720 -i input.yuv -c:v libx265 -x265-params crf=20:keyint=25:fps=25:preset=ultrafast -force_key_frames 1,12,30,111 -f mpegts out.ts
Please help me to sort out this issue.
Thanks.
ffmpeg's libx265 wrapper is very minimal, and doesn't pass on very many settings. e.g. -pass 1 requires manually setting -x265-params pass=1.
Also, if x265 is anything like x264, don't use ultrafast except for lossless or for testing things.
sorry for not taking the time to dig this up myself, but have a look and see if you can get your desired I frame locations into x265-params. Probably not, though.
If you want to hack some C code, have a look at libx264.c and libx265.c, and maybe you can see how to ffmpeg sends frame-type requests to x264. And maybe you can port that to the libx265 wrapper.
