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• ffmpeg quality conversion options (video compression)

  25 September 2020, by Jason Hunter

  Can you provide a link, or an explanation, to the -q:v 1 argument that deals with video/image quality, and compression, in ffmpeg.

  


  Let me explain...

  


  for f in *
   do 
     extension="${f##*.}"
     filename="${f%.*}"
     ffmpeg -i "$f" -q:v 1 "$filename"_lq."$extension"
     rm -f "$f"
   done


  


  The ffmpeg for loop above compresses all images and videos in your working directory, it basically lowers the quality which results in smaller file sizes (the desired outcome).

  


  I'm most interested in the -q:v 1 argument of this for loop. The 1 in the -q:v 1 argument is what controls the amount of compression. But I can't find any documentation describing how to change this value of 1, and describing what it does. Is it a percentage? Multiplier? How do I adjust this knob? Can/should I use negative values? Integers only? Min/max values? etc.

  


  I started with the official documentation but the best I could find was a section on video quality, and the -q flag description is sparse.

  


  


  -frames[:stream_specifier] framecount (output,per-stream)
  
Stop writing to the stream after framecount frames.
  
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-q[:stream_specifier] q (output,per-stream)
  

  
-qscale[:stream_specifier] q (output,per-stream)
  
Use fixed quality scale (VBR). The meaning of q/qscale is codec-dependent. If qscale is used without a stream_specifier then it applies only to the video stream, this is to maintain compatibility with previous behavior and as specifying the same codec specific value to 2 different codecs that is audio and video generally is not what is intended when no stream_specifier is used.

  


  


• Piwik 2 reaches end of life soon (December 2017), update now!

  7 December 2017, by Piwik Core Team — Community

  In less than three weeks, Piwik 2 will be no longer supported. This means that no further (security) updates will be released for this version. As per our Long Term Support announcement, Piwik 2.X is supported for 12 months after the initial release of Piwik 3.0.0 which was on December 18th 2016. Therefore, Piwik 2 will no longer receive any updates after December 18th 2017.

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• How to Identify the Version of ffmpeg.dll in WebView2 Runtime Fixed Version

  19 February, by Po-Sen

  I am currently using the WebView2 runtime fixed version. After expanding the package, I found multiple DLL files, including ffmpeg.dll.

  


  In the file properties, the file version is displayed as 0.0.0.0, and the only version-related information I can see is the product version: git-2024-04-25-e3581fa2dd.

  


  

  


  This format is different from the numeric versioning scheme I see on the official FFmpeg website: https://ffmpeg.org/download.html#releases.

  


  

  


  I want to trace the exact FFmpeg version used in this WebView2 distribution.
Initially, I assumed e3581fa2dd was a Git commit SHA. However, after cloning the FFmpeg repository from https://git.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg.git, I could not find this commit.

  


  Our product was recently scanned and found to contain FFmpeg version 3.4.2, which has known CVE security vulnerabilities. Therefore, we want to clarify the actual version of FFmpeg included in the WebView2 runtime.

  


  How can I determine the version of ffmpeg.dll included in WebView2 runtime fixed version?