Questions tagged [video-encoding]
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Arch Linux not playing videos (sometimes)
I’m facing a small issue on my Arch system. Sometimes video playback just stops: it keeps loading endlessly until I restart Arch. It seems like the video player or related service crashes. This often ...
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Arch Linux - unable to play videos in AOM-AV1 codec
I noticed that VLC could not display the sound of videos that used AOMedia's AV1 codec, or AOM-AV1 in short. When I tried to play videos in that specific codec, I could only hear the sound of the ...
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NVENC encoder missing in OBS, AUR package fails to compile on Arch Linux
I have an Nvidia GeForce RTX 4090. I am trying to use the NVENC encoder on OBS. Currently, only the software option, x264, appears in the settings. I attempted to install NVENC using the AUR. However, ...
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Correctly drop one field instead of deinterlacing in ffmpeg
So, I have a 1920x1080 interlaced video recording. I want to recode using ffmpeg to procuce a 960x540 non-interlaced video. And ideally I'd like to avoid deinterlacing - instead I just want to drop ...
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ffmpeg with NVenc does not seem to utilize my GPU
I tried to convert a high-resolution video to 2k. I used this command:
ffmpeg -i input_video.mp4 -vf scale=1920:1080 -c:v h264_nvenc -preset slow -b:v 8M output_video.mp4
Based on the top and nvidia-...
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How to limit FFmpeg bitrate while recording an RTSP stream with codec copy?
I am trying to record a short video from an RTSP stream using FFmpeg.
And I am facing the following problem: the video size is too large.
Using the command ffmpeg -i file.mp4, I've come to the ...
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Change the fingerprint of a video file with ffmpeg without re encoding it
I am searching for a way to edit a video file to not have the same fingerprint anymore.
It should not have a high CPU impact and all the tracks of the original file should be copied (so it needs map 0)...
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How to recover VOB video files in camcoder dvd with udf filesystem which appears empty but it's not
I recently discovered some old double-sided mini dvd-rw disks (2.8GB) which were used for recording video with a Sony DCR-DVD201E handycam. Both sides already had content but they were unfinalized so ...
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How to merge multiple mp4 files as chapters in a final mp4?
I have folder with files named like 0001.mp4, 0002.mp4, ...
I want to merge all these files to a combined.mp4, and I want it to have an internal chapter marks. It is convenient when playing for ...
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Firefox, Chromium on Debian: WebRTC H.264 is not supported
While trying to stream online with my friends, I had an issue where everyone else's computer can watch the stream but mine, and even my android device can watch it.
I found this test page from GitHub ...
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add/edit custom metadata fields to video files without remuxing?
TL;DR - Looking for a way to edit/add CUSTOM metadata fields to video files without remuxing.
I have some media files that I add custom metadata fields to (mostly mkv files downloaded with yt-dlp but ...
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ffmpeg re-encoding to h625 with video of Sea Water doubles file size
I know... there are a lot of questions out there already about reducing the file size with ffmpeg.
But, here's why my question is a bit different, it addresses having difficult content. I think ...
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Can "v4l2loopback" be installed/compiled for FreeBSD 13.1?
Wondering if anyone was able to compile v4l2loopback for FreeBSD 13.1
If so what are the steps.
I need it for FFMPEG to convert a live USB cam MJPEG video stream from yuv422 to yuv420 on the fly and ...
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Speed up video by ffmpeg did not reduce file size
I'm following
Speeding up playback speed
https://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/How%20to%20speed%20up%20/%20slow%20down%20a%20video
However, when I speed up my playback speed by 1.5, I'd anticipate a reduce of ...
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Find large video files inside sub folders and compress them inside the folder
I want to find all the video files larger than some specific size and compress them and save them in the same directory where it present.
