[FFmpeg-user] ffmpeg extremely high consumption

Moritz Barsnick barsnick at gmx.net
Sun Jun 14 02:24:44 CEST 2015


On Sat, Jun 13, 2015 at 19:17:51 -0400, En Figureo Canal wrote:
> Noticed that, after Henk's reply, if I use -vcodec copy then the output
> will "copy" the source video's attribute (-vb, size, etc...), but, if I
> really need to set the video rate (-vb) then I need to specify the codec
> needed to encode the new video.

No, it does not copy the attributes (those are very had to duplicate),
it copies the stream without reencoding. You wouldn't even need libx264
for that.

Moritz


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