[FFmpeg-user] Converting .mov files playable on html5 players..but very slow

[Henk D. Schoneveld]

On 24 Jun 2015, at 01:28, Dani A <danix4u-at-yahoo.com at ffmpeg.org> wrote:

> Any one knows? What is the minimum  encoding I can do on .mov files to make them mp4. I want to offload the cpu from too much processing in converting mov files to mp4.
You don’t say anything about what you tried and what the results were.
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>     On Sunday, June 21, 2015 3:59 PM, Dani A <danix4u at yahoo.com> wrote:
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> Is there any way faster I can convert iphone .mov to mp4. for example, copying the same codec instead of using the libx264 so it will be faster and will not consume so much resouces?
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>     On Tuesday, June 16, 2015 7:42 AM, Henk D. Schoneveld <belcampo at zonnet.nl> wrote:
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> On 16 Jun 2015, at 05:13, Dani A <danix4u-at-yahoo.com at ffmpeg.org> wrote:
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>> I am using the below command to covert the .mov files to play html5, but it takes so much time..Is there another way to convert those files so they can play on html5 players but fast to convert...
>> ffmpeg -i input.MOV -vf scale=720x406,setdar=16:9 -c:v libx264 -profile:v main -crf 20 -movflags faststart output.MOV
> You can make it faster by lowering the quality, by increasing the crf value. -crf 23 is the default value and is faster then -crf 20. It depends on the kind of stream and on your eyes how high is acceptable to you. Another option if player accepts this is anamorphic encoding, non-square pixels.
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>> Is there a faster codec to use compared to the libx264?
> According to Eighth MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 Video Codecs Comparison … libx264 is the fastest.
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