[FFmpeg-user] Which videoc codec gives best compression for screen recording?

Kuban Altan kuban.altan at gmail.com
Thu Nov 13 13:27:49 CET 2014


I would also give a shot for *quicktime animation* codec *(-vcodec qtrle)*.
Which can be lossless. But you have to test for file sizes. Which one gives
you better file size and minimum cpu load?

kuban altan

On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 2:18 PM, Carl Eugen Hoyos <cehoyos at ag.or.at> wrote:

> Tobias Rapp <t.rapp <at> noa-audio.com> writes:
>
> > To minimize the network upload time I searched
> > for file size optimizations.
>
> I understand.
> If your input is rgb, do not use -vcodec x264 with
> yuv444p colour space but -vcodec libx264rgb which
> allows higher quality (or smaller file size).
>
> Both (yuv444p and rgb) will not work with all players.
>
> Carl Eugen
>
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