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

[Reuben Martin]

On Monday, November 7, 2016 6:15:23 PM CST Joel Lopez wrote:
> After the files are done I
> segment them with ffmpeg and upload them and the .m3u8 files up to
> Amazon S3.

Why encode them to mp4 intermediate format? Wouldn’t it just be easier to 
encode directly to segmented hls and have ffmpeg PUT the segments to the 
publishing URL?

You probably need to specify the “-b” option. Otherwise it defaults to CRF 
mode if I remember correctly.

-Reuben