[FFmpeg-user] Poor quality output when converting avi to mp4

[Gyan]

On Tue, Jul 25, 2017 at 12:15 AM, Reindl Harald <h.reindl at thelounge.net>
wrote:


> ffmpeg  -v verbose -i hd.avi -vf scale=640:480 scaledoutput.mp4
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> without a bitrate param the results are poor because of ridiculous low
> bitrate defaults, at least that was the case many years ago as we
> implemented our php-wrapper
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Not an issue here, as MP4 defaults to libx264, when available, which in
turn defaults to CRF 23.