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A 'coder-decoder' computer program capable of encoding and/or decoding a digital data stream or signal.

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Shooting short clips vs. cutting long clips

Say I want to create several short clips with the original encoding of a certain camera. Do I have to shoot the short clips directly or can I shoot a long clip and then cut it up using ffmpeg with the ...
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Is there a slideshow codec?

Is there a video codec that deals well with slideshows? A substantial fraction of videos are slideshows with an audio track. An appropriate video codec would compress to little more than the audio ...
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Errors in FFmpegSource2 plugin source filter for AviSynth

I was unable to read MTS or MP4 files in AviSynth. Can AviSynth handle MTS files? pointed to the FFmpegSource2 filter, with information on the wiki. I downloaded the plugin and pointed to it from the ...
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Can AviSynth handle MTS files?

I want to process MTS (MPEG Transport Stream) files from an AVCHD camcorder in AviSynth. Displaying with AviSource() says that the file couldn't be opened, displaying with DirectShowSource() says that ...
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FFmpeg convert to HD video format that Adobe Premiere Pro will not crash on?

My problem is somewhat similar to others asked on the site in recent years, but none of those solutions were quite right for my problem: I have a series of frames from a video recorded at roughly 30 ...
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Video not playing in mac

I use a OnePlus 6 mobile for recording videos and so far I have never transferred the video to my Macbook Pro, however, I recently copied all my videos to learn video editing. All videos play ...
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RAW Format videos database

there is an online database for raw videos? I wanted to download some videos in RAW Format for a university work and I can't find none. The job I have to do is to encode the RAW video with different ...
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Smallest Possible Video File in H.264 Format

I am writing some unit-tests for a software that does some work with videos. To do so, I need a programmatically generated video file that is both small and legitimate in that it is actually a ...
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Best codes for different video formats

Is there a list somewhere on the internet to give a basic idea of what codecs are best for different video formats, for example, what codecs are best for MP4, MPEG, FLV etc?
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Video Quality Measurement test tool

I need to measure streaming video from various different codecs and be able to tell which one is better. What will be the best metrics to look for? Is there a free tool that can help with this.
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Can you encode intra-frame videos from inter-frame without loss?

I'm aware of the differences between intra and inter, but I'm not the most savvy about reencoding them after the fact. Is encoding with intra from an inter-coded video the same as if you originally ...
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Intermediate Codec for Resolve to Adobe Mediaencoder or Premiere Pro

I am editing in Resolve, sometimes I am also just Color Grading in Resolve, so I need an intermediate Codec between Resolve and Adobe Media Encoder or Premiere Pro. The size doesn't matter as much, as ...
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Some MP4s have keyframes on scene changes. Others seem to have random keyframes, or keyframes every X seconds. What causes this discrepancy?

Some MP4s have keyframes on scene changes; others have keyframes seemingly randomly placed, or placed every 5-10 seconds. I prefer the former, both for ease of editing and because, unless I'm ...
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Is using codecs matter if Facebook re-encode all the uploaded videos?

I usually encode with libx265 and libfdk_aac to get good quality and small file size for posting in Facebook. I use ffmpeg as follows. ffmpeg -i input.mp4 -vf -c:v libx265 -c:a libfdk_aac output.mp4 ...
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Is there a codec good for timelapse? Most of the time an egg is hatching, it is sitting there

I'd like to take a video of an egg hatching, but the space on the camera fills up before the action happens. Luckily, an egg before hatching is boooooring: 99% of the video is a still egg, sitting ...
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How to manipulate video codec errors using ffmpeg

I want to create a video full of codec errors like this: How can I manipulate ffmpeg parameters to create an output video like that?
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moov atom not found

I downloaded this video using youtube-dl's HLS downloader. The video was being HLS streamed using AES-128. Even though I could view it perfectly fine when it was being streamed in the browser, VLC ...
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Convert a non-supported/obscure codec to a supported codec

I currently work with a team of researchers and we are obtaining data from videos that are encoded with SMB8, they are AVI files. We couldn't find anything on the SMB8 codec online unfortunately. We ...
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Which Blackmagic codec to choose?

I purchased recently a new BMPCC 4K and I'm facing a big problem with file sizes... The files are tremendously huge, so I have to make a choice about the codec to choose. I'm shooting basically ...
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What does Ma10p stand for?

i.e. a file is listed as being "1920x1080 HEVC Ma10p FLAC" So....resolution / h.265 video codec / ? / .flac audio codec On its own I'd guess the 10 stands for 10 bit depth, but the Ma is unknown to ...
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Some H.264 videos that I have seem to have excessive bitrate, is there a way to determine/find their recommended bitrate?

So I have some videos that are Full HD, h264 but they have over 30M bitrate at 30 FPS, they are SDR and their quality is not very impressive so it seems excessive and unnatural for such unimpressive ...
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What happens when you use a specific CRF value on a already encoded x264 video?

If there is a h.264 video, and I use -crf 17 I sometimes I get a lower bitrate, but the weird thing is - most of the time get a higher ones. I am trying to get this setting because I think some ...
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Maximum YouTube video stream audio bitrate

I know that YouTube no allows 96kHz audio. But I also worry about second thing the bitrate. How much is possible maximum to get from YouTube stream? I'v only found recommended value of 384kbps, but I ...
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hard edges when exporting gradient with alpha channel

I'm exporting a file with a radial gradient where the core is opaque and the outer perimeter is transparent, along with a transparent background. I've noticed that there is a hard edge around the ...
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Upscale the key frames while decoding!

I would like to apply some kind of super-resolution (SR) to the keyframes in an H.264 video. The SR process should target the keyframes and upscale them by a factor of 2. For the past few days, I've ...
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Surround sound for cinema feature film (Pricing of Dolby Surround)

We are planning to shoot our first feature film with a budget of around 100'000-2'000'000$. And we'd like to master it in 5.1 Surround sound. Normal procedure would be to do it with Dolby Surround, ...
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“Opus cuts audio above 20kHz” - Is this normal for lossey audio codecs?

Summary: 1. Is it normal among lossey codecs? 2. what are the effects of this specifically when handling this 'cutoff' audio file? 3. Why is it still saving the file as 48khz if it doesn't contain ...
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Do video containers influence the video quality?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_video_container_formats Understanding containers and codecs I'm just confused because the information above seems to indicate containers are simply chosen ...
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Best FFmpeg codec for Final Cut import

Is there an ideal FFmpeg codec to use when the video file is designated to be imported into Final Cut Pro X?
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Add timecode information to file

I'm writing a program that interprets LTC timestamps from audio channels in video files. The goal is to remove the LTC track and replace it with some kind of native timestamps directly in the video ...
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Convert to ProRes with ffmpeg adds unwanted contrast to footage

I'm trying to convert H.264 footage from a Panasonic EVA1 camera to Apple ProRes with ffmpeg. However no matter which setting I use, the output file has slightly more contrast than the original input ...
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MJPEG Compression

Does a video stream compressed with MJPEG have a less variable output bit rate than others. If I make a little list, start with YUYP420, MJPEG, MPEG2, MPEG4, MPEG4_Part10HEVC(h264), SNOW? Given the ...
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Is MP4 a valid or common container for ProRes?

Is MP4 a valid or common container for ProRes? I've only seen it in MOVs and MXFs.
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AviSynth can't open my AVI file: “AVISource: Couldn't locate a decompressor for fourcc dvds”

I simply want to open an AVI file with AviSynth and feed it into VirtualDub. However, when I open my .avs script (consisting of just one AviSource() call), I get the following error: Avisynth open ...
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Codec for video surveillance assuming non-changing scenes

Are there video codecs, which automatically and effectively compress static scenes? For example, if we have the same room shown at the same light, this codec should produce zero or very low extra ...
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Format and codec for a video with 5760×1080

For an art installation I need to project on 3 projectors (1920×1080). My playback setup is: 1 PC with Windows 7, SSD, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 and 3 projectors (1920×1080). The video I need to ...
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What codec do I need for this video file?

I have a video file from my Hikvision NVR which I cannot play on Windows 10 in either VLC or Windows Media Player - all I get is a black video and the seek bar just whizzes along... I can play this ...
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Timestamps are unset in a packet for stream 0. This is deprecated and will stop working in the future. Fix your code to set the timestamps properly

I am using below command to push the video to Wowza server, since we are pushing raw H.264 video, the RTP packet does not have the timestamp, and we could observe audio video sync issue while playing ...
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AAC with no global headers is currently not supported

As per ffmpeg bitstream filter documentation, if we use -bsf:a aac_adtstoasc then the AAC stream from a raw ADTS AAC or an MPEG-TS container to MP4A-LATM. https://ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg-bitstream-...
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codec/container with additional reconstruction information for archival?

Are there (open source) codecs that support additional recovery information to be added during encoding to allow for an improved recovery from corruption? Application would be data archival of videos ...
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One flac file - many tracks - no cue - yet it's 'split' somehow

I have a music album in one FLAC file. There is no CUE file. When I try to play it with VLC or CMUS, it doesn't recognize individual tracks and plays it as one large file. BUT if I import it into Vox ...
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Is 4K 4.2.0 just HD 4.4.4

I've been reading about codecs lately and found out, that the 4.2.0 codec combines 4 pixels color to one used for all 4 of them, effectively lowering the filesize. Now how does this compare to a ...
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FFMPEG frame extraction

I have couple of video files with sudden transition from black frame to blue frame, both frames have burned-in frame numbers, I would like to use ffmpeg to define the timestamp of this transition in ...
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Best lossless codec [closed]

What is the best codec at the moment without losses? HEVC, or is it faster / more compact? In HEVC there is a lossless mode. On the Internet did not find the actual information for this year.
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FFMPEG - MAC OS Cannot Capture from Black Magic UltraStudio (Thunderbolt)

I have Black magic UltraStudio Express that captures SDI or HDMI and Connected to MacBook via Thunderbolt when I list devices I get the Audio but not the video : $ ffmpeg -f avfoundation -...
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Lossless color compression

I need to reduce the file size of an mp4 video. I don't need color information at all but pixel brightness resolution must be preserved. Videos consist of white background with a few (important) black ...
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Lossless and lossy compression techniques

Are MPEG and H.264 Lossless?? I need a brief explanation about lossy and lossles... And which compression technique is generally using in CCTV Surveillance applications of video??
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Understanding containers and codecs

To my understanding, there is the container format (MP4, MOV, 3GP, AVI) and the codecs (Theora, VP8, H264, XVid, DivX). For what I understand, the container format and the codecs are independent and ...
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How do I check codec for a video(mp4) in windows 10? [duplicate]

I'm devleoping an Android application. The official site lists all the codecs which are recommended for videos in Android platform. I have 2 videos. One of them cannot be played by Android. I would ...
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What does codec stand for?

Does codec stand for compression or decompression? I have also heard it stands for encoder/decoder. Which is it? Maybe something entirely different. I'm looking for a source better then Wikipedia.

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