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• Capture camera + mic and encode to h264/aac on macOS

  16 décembre 2018, par Flock Dawson

  I’m having trouble capturing and encoding audio+video on-the-fly on macOS.

  I tried two options :

  1. ffmpeg

     ffmpeg -threads 0 -f avfoundation -s 1920x1080 -framerate 25 -I 0:0 -async 441 -c:v libx264 -preset medium -pix_fmt yuv420p -crf 22 -c:a libfdk_aac -aq 95 -y

  2. gstreamer

     gst-launch-1.0 -ve avfvideosrc device-index=0 ! video/x-raw,width=1920,height=1080,framerate=25/1 ! vtenc_h264 ! queue ! mp4mux name=mux ! filesink location=out.mp4  osxaudiosrc device=0 ! audio/x-raw ! faac midside=false ! queue ! mux.

  The ffmpeg option works, but only for lower resolutions. With higher resolutions, the Mac mini (2018 gen) can’t do the heavy lifting. I think because I installed ffmpeg with brew, so it wasn’t compiled on my machine, meaning it doesn’t use the h264 hardware encoder in the Mac ?

  The gstreamer option works as well, but there’s a slight audio/video sync issue (audio is 100ms ahead of the video). I can’t seem to add delay to the GStreamer queue (it ignores it) :

  queue max-size-buffers=0 max-size-time=0 max-size-bytes=0 min-threshold-time=100000000

  Anyone who has any experience with this ? Thanks !

• h264 lossless coding

  19 juillet 2022, par cloudraven

  Is it possible to do completely lossless encoding in h264 ? By lossless, I mean that if I feed it a series of frames and encode them, and then if I extract all the frames from the encoded video, I will get the exact same frames as in the input, pixel by pixel, frame by frame. Is that actually possible ?
Take this example :

  



  I generate a bunch of frames, then I encode the image sequence to an uncompressed AVI (with something like virtualdub), I then apply lossless h264 (the help files claim that setting —qp 0 makes lossless compression, but I am not sure if that means that there is no loss at any point of the process or that just the quantization is lossless). I can then extract the frames from the resulting h264 video with something like mplayer.

  



  I tried with Handbrake first, but it turns out it doesn't support lossless encoding. I tried x264 but it crashes. It may be because my source AVI file is in RGB colorspace instead of YV12. I don't know how to feed a series of YV12 bitmaps and in what format to x264 anyway, so I cannot even try.

  



  In summary what I want to know if that is there a way to go from

  



  Series of lossless bitmaps (in any colorspace) -> some transformation -> h264 encode -> h264 decode -> some transformation -> the original series of lossless bitmaps

  



  If there a way to achieve this ?

  



  EDIT : There is a VERY valid point about lossless H264 not making too much sense. I am well aware that there is no way I could tell (with just my eyes) the difference between and uncompressed clip and another compressed at a high rate in H264, but I don't think it is not without uses. For example, it may be useful for storing video for editing without taking huge amounts of space and not losing quality and spending too much encoding time every time the file is saved.

  



  UPDATE 2 : Now x264 doesn't crash. I can use as sources either avisynth or lossless yv12 lagarith (to avoid the colorspace compression warning). Howerver, even with —qp 0 and a rgb or yv12 source I still get some differences, minimal but present. This is troubling, because all the information I have found on lossless predictive coding (—qp 0) claims that the whole encoding should be lossless, but I am unable to verifiy this.

  


• h264 lossless coding

  29 septembre 2014, par cloudraven

  Is it possible to do completely lossless encoding in h264 ? By lossless, I mean that if I feed it a series of frames and encode them, and then if I extract all the frames from the encoded video, I will get the exact same frames as in the input, pixel by pixel, frame by frame. Is that actually possible ?
  Take this example :

  I generate a bunch of frames, then I encode the image sequence to an uncompressed AVI (with something like virtualdub), I then apply lossless h264 (the help files claim that setting —qp 0 makes lossless compression, but I am not sure if that means that there is no loss at any point of the process or that just the quantization is lossless). I can then extract the frames from the resulting h264 video with something like mplayer.

  I tried with Handbrake first, but it turns out it doesn’t support lossless encoding. I tried x264 but it crashes. It may be because my source AVI file is in RGB colorspace instead of YV12. I don’t know how to feed a series of YV12 bitmaps and in what format to x264 anyway, so I cannot even try.

  In summary what I want to know if that is there a way to go from

  Series of lossless bitmaps (in any colorspace) -> some transformation -> h264 encode -> h264 decode -> some transformation -> the original series of lossless bitmaps

  If there a way to achieve this ?

  EDIT : There is a VERY valid point about lossless H264 not making too much sense. I am well aware that there is no way I could tell (with just my eyes) the difference between and uncompressed clip and another compressed at a high rate in H264, but I don’t think it is not without uses. For example, it may be useful for storing video for editing without taking huge amounts of space and not losing quality and spending too much encoding time every time the file is saved.

  UPDATE 2 : Now x264 doesn’t crash. I can use as sources either avisynth or lossless yv12 lagarith (to avoid the colorspace compression warning). Howerver, even with —qp 0 and a rgb or yv12 source I still get some differences, minimal but present. This is troubling, because all the information I have found on lossless predictive coding (—qp 0) claims that the whole encoding should be lossless, but I am unable to verifiy this.