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• How can I learn the effective quality of the h264_nvenc encoder ?

  24 septembre 2020, par pfdint2

  I seek to ascertain the end-product quality of various cq ("constant quality") values for the h264_nvenc video encoder.

  


  To use the h264_nvenc encoder through ffmpeg and with a target quality, I follow the instructions in Nvidia's documentation, last paragraph of the linked anchor.

  


  I specify a Variable Bit Rate rate control mode (rc=vbr_hq) and a target quality (cq=). This should be enough to test various values of cq. The story should end there.

  


  HOWEVER, that only outputs the same perfect quality video of extremely large size for any cq value. (Using cq=1, cq=20, and cq=51 all output a file with the same hash.)

  


  Per documentation, I can also specify a maxBitRate (maxrate=). If I don't specify a maxrate, the documentation indicates :

  


  


  If maxBitRate is not specified, the encoder will use as many bits as needed to achieve the target quality.

  


  


  But that's not the behavior I'm observing. I'm seeing the encoder use as many bits as possible, not as many bits as needed. The resultant video has an overall bitrate of 100Mb/s. Double the source video.

  


  If I do set a maxrate, it is observed by the encoder. But if I have to set the bitrate correctly for every cq value, what is the point of the cq value ? I would just set cq=1 and test various bitrates, which would then only be applicable to a specific video.

  


  Is there some warning or output that notes that the bitrate was insufficient to reach the target quality that I'm not seeing ? That would at least allow me to brute force this.

  


  Or am I misunderstanding the relationship between these settings ?

  


• FFmpeg export frames listed in file (including duplicates)

  5 novembre 2020, par Arnis Gustins

  Problem

  


  I have a list of frames that I want to extract from some video file.
The list might look like this :

  


  1,6,6,10,15,20,20,25,25,50


  


  In reality there are thousands of frames.

  


  How do I extract these frames into images or video in efficient way ?

  


  What I have tried

  


  

  1. Using FFmpeg select filter. I could create huge string from file like select=eq(\n,1)+eq(\n,6)+... but the problem is that I cannot export duplicates this way. Also I am not sure about the performance.

  


  2. Exporting all frames to folder, then copying relevant frames to another folder. This is the current solution, which is painfully slow and takes a lot of storage.

  


  3. Using python and opencv. I could use cv.VideoCapture functionality to read frame by frame and save the ones I need. The problem is that before the extraction, I need to change framerate of the video to some constant framerate (very important). That's why ffmpeg is preferred, because I could add fps filter to filterchain. I know that it's possible to read frames with opencv by using ffmpeg backend, but I couldn't find how to change the framerate beforehand. Reencoding the video before is not preferred as it wastes time and possibly decreases video quality.

  


  4. Write a new ffmpeg filter. While I am not in close relationship with C or ffmpeg API, I tried editing fps filter to drop frames that are not in the list. This kind of worked but I couldn't solve the problem with duplicating frames. I wonder if that's possible to do and if I should continue trying with this approach. Having ffmpeg filter would be probably the best option.

  


  


• ffmpeg copy stream preserving FPS

  10 mars 2017, par James Taylor

  I have a stream that I know is outputting at a certain frame rate (30 FPS). I want to use ffmpeg to make a copy of this stream and save it to disk.

  I have the following command :

  ffmpeg -i http://input/ -c copy -map 0 \
  
      -f segment -strftime 1 -segment_time 900 \
  
      -segment_atclocktime 1 -segment_format mp4 %Y-%m-%d_%H-%M-%S.mp4

  But when I run the command, I see the following :

  frame=   32 fps=3.9 q=-1.0 Lsize=N/A time=00:00:01.27 bitrate=N/A

  Where it appears the FPS is hovers around 4.0 FPS and time moves slower than real time.

  I tried added -re (copy the rate of the input stream) and -r 30 (manually set the rate to 30 FPS) flag specified before the input file, but it didn’t seem to work.

  I also read a similar question here using -framerate 30, but that option doesn’t exist in the man pages and is an Invalid option.

  Any help would be greatly appreciated !

  ---

  So I let the modified command (removing the flags -c copy -map 0) run for exactly 5 minutes. Running ffprobe yields :

  Input #0, mov,mp4,m4a,3gp,3g2,mj2, from '2017-03-10_01-09-12.mp4':
  
    Metadata:
  
      major_brand     : isom
  
      minor_version   : 512
  
      compatible_brands: isomiso2avc1mp41
  
      encoder         : Lavf57.2.100
  
    Duration: 00:00:15.43, start: 0.066016, bitrate: 13416 kb/s
  
      Stream #0:0(und): Video: h264 (High) (avc1 / 0x31637661), yuvj420p(pc), 1024x768, 13414 kb/s, 30 fps, 30 tbr, 15360 tbn, 60 tbc (default)
  
      Metadata:
  
        handler_name    : VideoHandler

  Again, this only produces 15 seconds of video and I can’t seem to get a 1:1 relationship between the input stream of 30 FPS and an output stream also in 30 FPS in real time. Playing the video yields something that’s sped up.