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• How can I retain 2x pixel density when encoding Retina screen capture with ffmpeg ?

  26 février 2018, par hfossli

  Whenever I use ffmpeg to encode a HiDPI/Retina screen recording, the video plays at 2x the size, so it looks fuzzy, because the pixel density is not retained.

  How can I retain the original pixel density of HiDPI screen recordings with ffmpeg ?

  How to reproduce :

  1. Use QuickTime Player to create a Screen Recording on a Retina Mac.
  2. Play the video you recorded in QuickTime Player using the ⌘1 Actual Size view. Notice that it’s playing 2:1 on your Retina Display, so the video looks sharp. It’s playing in half the space of the actual recorded pixels.

  3. Use ffmpeg to encode the video using a command like this :

     ffmpeg -i haha.mov -c:v libx264 -crf 23 haha-lg.mov

  4. Play the new ffmpeg-compressed video in QuickTime Player using the ⌘1 Actual Size view. Notice that it’s playing 1:1, so the video looks fuzzy.

  To clarify, the video does not look blurry because it was compressed. Rather, it looks blurry because the video is being played twice as big as it should be, at a 1:1 pixel density, instead of the required 2:1 pixel density, presumably because some metadata is being discarded when encoding.

  For the record, VLC plays both videos too big (blurry). So being able to play HiDPI videos seems to be a feature of QuickTime Player.

  Here is the detailed information ffmpeg shows for the original screen recording :

  Input #0, mov,mp4,m4a,3gp,3g2,mj2, from 'haha.mov':
  
    Metadata:
  
      major_brand     : qt  
  
      minor_version   : 0
  
      compatible_brands: qt  
  
      creation_time   : 2018-02-26T16:46:00.000000Z
  
      com.apple.quicktime.make: Apple
  
      com.apple.quicktime.model: iMac18,3
  
      com.apple.quicktime.software: Mac OS X 10.13.3 (17D102)
  
      com.apple.quicktime.creationdate: 2018-02-26T10:45:50-0600
  
    Duration: 00:00:04.35, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 10947 kb/s
  
      Stream #0:0(und): Video: h264 (Main) (avc1 / 0x31637661), yuv420p(tv, bt709), 1396x928 [SAR 1:1 DAR 349:232], 10701 kb/s, 60 fps, 60 tbr, 6k tbn, 12k tbc (default)
  
      Metadata:
  
        creation_time   : 2018-02-26T16:46:00.000000Z
  
        handler_name    : Core Media Data Handler
  
        encoder         : H.264

  And here is the information for the ffmpeg-compressed version :

  Input #0, mov,mp4,m4a,3gp,3g2,mj2, from 'haha-lg.mov':
  
    Metadata:
  
      major_brand     : qt  
  
      minor_version   : 512
  
      compatible_brands: qt  
  
      encoder         : Lavf57.83.100
  
    Duration: 00:00:04.35, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 1923 kb/s
  
      Stream #0:0(eng): Video: h264 (High) (avc1 / 0x31637661), yuv420p, 1396x928 [SAR 1:1 DAR 349:232], 1783 kb/s, 60 fps, 60 tbr, 15360 tbn, 120 tbc (default)
  
      Metadata:
  
        handler_name    : DataHandler
  
        encoder         : Lavc57.107.100 libx264

• How can I retain 2x pixel density when encoding Retina screen capture with ffmpeg ?

  26 février 2018, par hfossli

  Whenever I use ffmpeg to encode a HiDPI/Retina screen recording, the video plays at 2x the size, so it looks fuzzy, because the pixel density is not retained.

  How can I retain the original pixel density of HiDPI screen recordings with ffmpeg ?

  How to reproduce :

  1. Use QuickTime Player to create a Screen Recording on a Retina Mac.
  2. Play the video you recorded in QuickTime Player using the ⌘1 Actual Size view. Notice that it’s playing 2:1 on your Retina Display, so the video looks sharp. It’s playing in half the space of the actual recorded pixels.

  3. Use ffmpeg to encode the video using a command like this :

     ffmpeg -i haha.mov -c:v libx264 -crf 23 haha-lg.mov

  4. Play the new ffmpeg-compressed video in QuickTime Player using the ⌘1 Actual Size view. Notice that it’s playing 1:1, so the video looks fuzzy.

  To clarify, the video does not look blurry because it was compressed. Rather, it looks blurry because the video is being played twice as big as it should be, at a 1:1 pixel density, instead of the required 2:1 pixel density, presumably because some metadata is being discarded when encoding.

  For the record, VLC plays both videos too big (blurry). So being able to play HiDPI videos seems to be a feature of QuickTime Player.

  Here is the detailed information ffmpeg shows for the original screen recording :

  Input #0, mov,mp4,m4a,3gp,3g2,mj2, from 'haha.mov':
  
    Metadata:
  
      major_brand     : qt  
  
      minor_version   : 0
  
      compatible_brands: qt  
  
      creation_time   : 2018-02-26T16:46:00.000000Z
  
      com.apple.quicktime.make: Apple
  
      com.apple.quicktime.model: iMac18,3
  
      com.apple.quicktime.software: Mac OS X 10.13.3 (17D102)
  
      com.apple.quicktime.creationdate: 2018-02-26T10:45:50-0600
  
    Duration: 00:00:04.35, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 10947 kb/s
  
      Stream #0:0(und): Video: h264 (Main) (avc1 / 0x31637661), yuv420p(tv, bt709), 1396x928 [SAR 1:1 DAR 349:232], 10701 kb/s, 60 fps, 60 tbr, 6k tbn, 12k tbc (default)
  
      Metadata:
  
        creation_time   : 2018-02-26T16:46:00.000000Z
  
        handler_name    : Core Media Data Handler
  
        encoder         : H.264

  And here is the information for the ffmpeg-compressed version :

  Input #0, mov,mp4,m4a,3gp,3g2,mj2, from 'haha-lg.mov':
  
    Metadata:
  
      major_brand     : qt  
  
      minor_version   : 512
  
      compatible_brands: qt  
  
      encoder         : Lavf57.83.100
  
    Duration: 00:00:04.35, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 1923 kb/s
  
      Stream #0:0(eng): Video: h264 (High) (avc1 / 0x31637661), yuv420p, 1396x928 [SAR 1:1 DAR 349:232], 1783 kb/s, 60 fps, 60 tbr, 15360 tbn, 120 tbc (default)
  
      Metadata:
  
        handler_name    : DataHandler
  
        encoder         : Lavc57.107.100 libx264

• Museum of Multimedia Software, Part 3

  18 août 2010, par Multimedia Mike — Software Museum

  Discreet Cleaner 5
  Capture, author, encode, and publish multimedia in Real, QuickTime, Windows Media, MP3, DV, and MPEG formats. This package has a copyright date of 2001 (thus predating Flash video by a few years). This software seems to have since been purchased by Autodesk and is up to version 6.5 (which does support Flash video).

  
  
  

  Discreet Plasma
  "Web 3D Design." Package is copyright 2002. Like the last package, this package also makes reference to Discreet being a division of Autodesk. Sure enough, Autodesk purchased them in 1999 and would later rename them Autodesk Media and Entertainment.

  
  
  

  Debabelizer
  "The Graphics Processing Toolbox." Looking down its list of features on the box copy, I honestly wonder if it can accomplish anything that ImageMagick can’t.

  
  
  

  MatchWare Mediator 7
  "Create Flash, HTML & CD-Rom Presentations." Wow, version 7, and with a latest copyright date of 2002 on the box. There’s still a top-Google-hit web page for MatchWare Mediator 9, this one instead emphasizing interactive CDs, HTML, and then Flash.

  
  
  

  Final Cut Pro v1.2.5
  Promotional copy Apple’s video editing software. No copyright date, but it requires a PowerPC G3 or G4 and Mac OS 9.

  
  
  

  Apple Keynote
  More Apple software that I think can technically be classified as multimedia-related. I’m not sure which version this is.