Saturday, November 14, 2015

ffmpeg2theora - BAD keyframe interval

From the source code, "ffmpeg2theora" by default puts the value of keyframe interval at 64 (for one-pass mode) and 256 (for two-pass mode).

No video is transcoded well.

After experimenting with some values (while having a lot of pain with blocky OGV outputs), according to my experience the default value should simply be 16, for either pass.

It doesn't matter whether you have VERY HIGH video-bitrates. If you have these default values for keyframe interval, your videos will have pixelation.

Sigh!