[FFmpeg-user] How do I encode in H264 Baseline but change the GOP?

[Carl Partridge]

Apologies, I meant

-g 250

in the middle of my question.

On 27 May 2011 16:02, Carl Partridge <cpp at fatattitude.com> wrote:

> Hi everyone, I've just joined the mailing list, so thank you in advance for
> having me.
>
> I am trying to encode to H264/MP3, mux'd into Mpeg1-TS.  It's for HTTP Live
> Streaming, but the decoder only supports baseline profile.
>
> After some time spent looking at the options, I realised that I could just
> do:
>
>      ffmpeg -profile baseline -i input.avi -y -async 1 -f mpegts -vcodec
> libx264 -b 1200k -bt 100k -r 25 -acodec libmp3lame -ab 64k -ar 48000 -ac 2
> output.ts
>
> ....to generate my stream.  (then segment with an appropriate app)
>
> Unfortunately, this is no good for segmenting, since I have no control over
> the GOP length.  Ideally I would like an IDR (index) frame at the beginning
> of each 10-second segment.  I tried:
>
>      -g 10     (before AND after the -profile parameter)
>
> ...unfortunately it seems to be ignored, presumably because the default
> settings that "-profile baseline" applies wipe out everything else.
>
> Is there any way to specify a GOP interval while forcing everything else to
> constrained baseline, or will I have to manually specify all the various
> X264 flags.  I tried doing this, but wasted hours, since I couldn't find out
> the exact ones that corresponded to constrained baseline profile, and
> something kept bumping the decoder.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
>
> Carl
>
> PS: This is all for 'SilverLive', an HTTP Live Streaming client I have
> developed for MS Silverlight.
>
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> *Carl Partridge*
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>
>


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