[FFmpeg-user] Cut part of a video, crop it and blackout parts of it

[Cecil Westerhof]

Nicolas George <george at nsup.org> writes:

> Carl Eugen Hoyos (12021-04-05):
>> There is a fundamental misunderstanding:
>> You decide how much quality you want to preserve, x264 decides how
>> much bitrate is needed to reach that quality.
>
> You also decide how much computing power you want to spend on it, which
> Cecil neglected to do. More computing power usually means lower bitrate
> for same quality. The keyword is "preset".

Yes, that was not smart.

The funny thing about that is that years ago I have played with that.
My very strange finding was that I could best use veryfast. It was
faster and created smaller files. But that is many years ago, so maybe
that is not true anymore.

Time to play with preset again.

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Cecil Westerhof
Senior Software Engineer
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