[FFmpeg-user] forcing x264 baseline

[Robert Krüger]

On Nov 7, 2011, at 10:51 , Paolo wrote:

> dear all,
> 
> for a lot of time I used this command line to convert my video to a
> format compatible with my android device:
> 
> ffmpeg -i input.mp4 -strict experimental -s 320x240 -b 384k -vcodec
> libx264 -flags +loop+mv4 -cmp 256 -partitions
> +parti4x4+parti8x8+partp4x4+partp8x8+partb8x8 -subq 7 -trellis 1 -refs
> 5 -bf 0 -flags2 +mixed_refs -coder 0 -me_range 16 -g 250 -keyint_min
> 25 -sc_threshold 40 -i_qfactor 0.71 -qmin 10 -qmax 51 -qdiff 4 -acodec
> aac -ac 2 -ab 128k -ar 44100 output.mp4
> 
> using mediainfo I see that
> 
> Format profile                           : Baseline at L1.3
> 
> and the result file will play on android without problems
> 
> Now, I suppose after an ffmpeg update, the same command line produce a file with
> 
> Format profile                           : Main at L1.3
> 
> by this way the file mp4 will not play on my android device.
> 
> I see in the man ffmpeg that "-profile" is deprecated, so, what will

http://ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg.html#Options

this doesn't look like it's deprecated. Have you tried -profile baseline? And btw. it is recommended to use presets (i.e. -preset) instead of specifying all the encoder options. try x264 --fullhelp for docs.

HTH,

Robert