[FFmpeg-user] Unsophisticated user has a question

[Jeff Evarts]

On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 3:40 AM, Henk D. Schoneveld <belcampo at zonnet.nl>wrote:

> > Is there some way for me to understand whether this is "a lot of loss
> and I
> > should keep the original" vs "no real loss and save the space".
> Real loss means, you can visibly detect it. If you add -crf 22 and inspect
> both visibly and the size of the file, then if not satisfied with the
> result, try -crf 20 etc. With -crf 20 file size will be larger and quality
> will be better. Decide yourself if things are going in the desired
> direction.
>

Thank you Henk! This is exactly what I needed.

-Jeff