[FFmpeg-user] mpeg2 filesize reduction: reduce video, enhance audio, codec selection

[Steve Boyer]

On May 7, 2014 5:28 PM, "Moritz Barsnick" <barsnick at gmx.net> wrote:
>
> On Wed, May 07, 2014 at 12:31:55 -0500, Steve Boyer wrote:
> > Alternatively, I just saw this:
> >
> >
http://www.zoharbabin.com/how-to-do-noise-reduction-using-ffmpeg-and-sox/
>
> ...which has some very bad advice on the use of ffmpeg. "-sameq" no
> longer exists, and didn't make much sense. More seriously, the
> instructions let you convert the video twice instead of just copying
> the original video stream back into the resulting file.
>
> The main intent, the sox audio part, may be correct, I can't comment on
> that. :-)

Agreed - was more of a "here's some guy who demuxed the streams, ran SoX on
the audio portion using this command, and remixed. Interpolate as needed."

> Nitpicking,
> Moritz

Nitpicked,
Steve