[FFmpeg-user] Encoding for Amazon Cloud Front HLS adaptive streaming. Peak rate too high.

[Joel Lopez]

On Mon, Nov 7, 2016 at 6:27 PM, Carl Eugen Hoyos <ceffmpeg at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2016-11-08 3:15 GMT+01:00 Joel Lopez <badassmexican at gmail.com>:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm trying to figure out how to encode with ffmpeg instead of Elastic
>> Transcoder.  I wrote a bash script that outputs these commands and
>> encodes 6 files different bitrates.  After the files are done I
>> segment them with ffmpeg and upload them and the .m3u8 files up to
>> Amazon S3.  Once they're up I check the stream using Apple's Media
>> Stream Validator and I get the errors below the commands.  What am I
>> missing in my commands to cap the bit rates?
>
> Where in your commands are you trying to cap the bitrates?
>
>> ffmpeg version 2.6.git
>
> Please understand that this is completely outdated and not supported.
>
> Carl Eugen
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Setting the maxrate and bufsize I thought caped the bitrates.  I
previously also had b:v 1750k in addition to maxrate and bufsize and
go the same errors.  Am I missing something?

Thanks for letting me letting me know about the version.  I'll work on
updating it.