[FFmpeg-user] default is 200 kb/s?
Andy Civil
andycivil at gmail.com
Sun Sep 16 04:32:35 CEST 2012
On 2012-09-15 7:53 PM, Roger Pack wrote:
> I noticed that when you specify "-vcodec mpeg4" it seems to give an
> output of 200 kb/s. I assume it is targeting this and this is the
> default?
> Thank you.
> -roger-
It's what you might call a "known problem". I'm only guessing, but I'm pretty
sure that the default value was sensible years ago when it was defined, and from
then on, no one felt able to change it, since it might break expectations and
there's no compelling reason to.
Unfortunately, it does trip up a few new users (like me, once) who wonder why
the default quality is "terrible".
Basically, you need to set your bitrate (or choose a quality level, or something
else that fixes it).
--
Andy
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