31
votes
Accepted
How to encode Apple ProRes on Windows or Linux?
As of December 2018, Adobe Creative Cloud aps, such as Premier, After Effects and Adobe Media Encoder give you the ability to encode in ProRes without any post-hoc conversion.
If you don't use Adobe ...
- 13.5k
18
votes
Accepted
Is there a video type for vector animation?
There was one, but it fell in to disuse and isn't used very often anymore, largely because of the lack of mobile support, but also due to security issues it created. It was called Flash.
- 19.3k
11
votes
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
The usual solution for this situation: -fflags +genpts
It should eliminate the warning, but there's no guarantee your sync issues will be solved.
- 211
8
votes
Is there a video type for vector animation?
The University of Bath released a paper demonstrating a vector-based video codec a couple of years ago, with a press release asking "is the pixel about to die?". Strangely since then the pixel hasn't ...
- 13.5k
8
votes
Accepted
ffmpeg: how to convert to DNxHR in Windows 10?
There's a single decoder/encoder which reads/converts to both DNxHD and DNxHR.
You have to set the correct profile switch. Available options are
dnxhd E..V....
dnxhr_444 ...
- 31.3k
7
votes
Can H264 achieve "equivalence" with ProRes 422?
Has anyone done or seen any tests comparing Apple ProRes 422 with high-bitrate H.264?
No, but I can tell you that x264 can get as close to lossless as you want (or even mathematically lossless, with -...
- 2,670
7
votes
Is there a video type for vector animation?
SVG supports animation using JavaScript and the animate element. That means using a browser or embeddable renderer like WebKit to render it, though.
Older games often used their own vector animation ...
- 171
6
votes
How can encode video with images like these (overlay a video over a fixed image) with ffmpeg?
To overlay a half-sized version of a video in the center of an image, use
ffmpeg -loop 1 -i image -i video
-filter_complex "[1]scale=iw/2:-1[ovrl];
[0][ovrl]overlay=(main_w-overlay_w)...
- 31.3k
6
votes
Accepted
Understanding containers and codecs
MPEG-4 is not a container specification. It's a suite of specifications. Parts 12 and 14 define containers (MP4). Part 2 defines a video codec, whose encoder implementations are DivX and Xvid. Part 10 ...
- 31.3k
4
votes
How to encode Apple ProRes on Windows or Linux?
I've tried a bunch of front ends for ffmpeg and finally settled on Tencoder. Widows only. It has a preset for ProRes and is very easy to customize so you can crete setting for often used formats or ...
- 141
4
votes
Video codec for simple animation?
I read up a bit and made some experiments with lossless codecs, getting decent results. I'd be interested in comments on this, especially if there are lossless or lossy alternatives that I overlooked.
...
- 231
4
votes
Accepted
Streamable Container for HEVC (H.265)
MPEG -TS. See here:
All MPEG-2 TS operations from GPAC (client and MP42TS) are supported on
HEVC. MP42TS can be used to generate TS files usable for DASH or for
injection in modulation ...
- 31.3k
4
votes
Accepted
Do a sort of HEAC - High Efficiency Audio Codec exists?
I think HE-AAC fits that bill.
High-Efficiency Advanced Audio Coding (HE-AAC) is an audio coding
format for lossy data compression of digital audio defined as an
MPEG-4 Audio profile in ISO/IEC ...
- 31.3k
4
votes
Accepted
.mkv file not playing in HEVC/H.265 supported player
Both files that don't play feature Opus as the audio codec. As per this site, Opus is not one of the supported audio codecs.
Transcode the audio:
ffmpeg -i in.mkv -c:v copy out.mkv
- 31.3k
4
votes
Accepted
What does codec stand for?
One of the earliest articles in the IEEE database that uses the term, defines it as "coders and decoders."
However, newer material does not seem to be consistent. One of the Wikipedia page's sources (...
- 2,407
4
votes
Accepted
Is MP4 a valid or common container for ProRes?
No, officially, ProRes is not a registered codec for the ISOBMFF family, of which MP4 is a member.
- 31.3k
4
votes
Accepted
How can I find out which chroma subsampling (if any) is used in a video file?
Mediainfo is a free, open source, cross-platform solution, available in 37 languages. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaInfo
When run from the command line it outputs chrome subsampling info by ...
- 4,354
4
votes
How can I find out which chroma subsampling (if any) is used in a video file?
Using the ffprobe command (part of FFmpeg, also a command line tool)
ffprobe -show_entries stream=pix_fmt <VIDEO FILE>
The output will look like this:
...
[STREAM]
pix_fmt=yuv420p
[/STREAM]
[...
- 803
3
votes
How to encode Apple ProRes on Windows or Linux?
This is the command line I have used to encode ProRes 4444. If you do not include -bits_per_mb you will get low res results in Windows 10. Many posts do not mention this little aspect.
ffmpeg -y -f ...
- 31
3
votes
How to encode Apple ProRes on Windows or Linux?
On Windows, I recommend FootageStudio 4K. It is a commercial converter (not cheap) that supports many professional formats, including ProRes.
- 1,139
3
votes
Is there a video type for vector animation?
Here is some research about this topic:
Resolution Independent 2D Cartoon Video Conversion
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/305390110_Resolution_Independent_2D_Cartoon_Video_Conversion
Video ...
- 131
3
votes
VLC Alternative for fine review media with possibly frames control and detailed codec informations
I haven't used VLC as my primary player since 2007. I switched over initially to KMPlayer and then Potplayer. Potplayer allows fairly flexible splitter and codec assignment for decoding. It also ...
- 31.3k
3
votes
Accepted
Predict file size of a Huffyuv codec video stream
The answer is No. Besides the frame dimensions, there's the matter of content complexity. Without scanning the video and doing a first-pass as it were, it's not possible to predict the output size. A ...
- 31.3k
3
votes
ffmpeg bgr vs rgb and other similiar pixel formats
While I always guessed that the big / little endian was more a matter of patents rather than performance,
Nope little endian was developed as a performance optimization whern moving to multi byte ...
- 1,030
3
votes
Accepted
ffmpeg bgr vs rgb and other similiar pixel formats
The order of the components in RGB32 seems to do with endianness:
PIX_FMT_RGB32 is handled in an endian-specific manner. An RGBA color
is put together as: (A << 24) | (R << 16) | (G &...
- 31.3k
3
votes
ffv1 realtime capture throws out a lot of frame dropped messages!
I get the same result with your commands, however if I skip the pixel format conversion and use the input pixel format 'bgr0', then except for an initial frame drop, I get no further drops. Note that ...
- 31.3k
3
votes
Reduce render file size in After Effects
You need to change the encoding settings. By default, AE uses the AVI animation codec, which is very good at retaining quality but creates incredibly large files. Using an intermediary codec like ...
- 1,004
3
votes
Accepted
Video format can't be played or converted
Use this ffmpeg* command:
ffmpeg -i "20151105-175532.dad" -c:v copy "20151105-175532.mp4"
*get 32-bit static build.
- 31.3k
Only top scored, non community-wiki answers of a minimum length are eligible